"No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine" (Rob Merritt, Brooks Brown)
So there is some event. You read the paper and watch the TV news. You think you understand what happened and you feel good.
Then you hear another source who informs you that everything you thought you knew was BS. The truth is totally different.
This scenario is a mainstay in movies but it happens in real life too, all too often. It is unsettling. "If I thought that was true and it wasnt, what else do I think is true and isnt?"
This is a video game podcast for parents but this particular episode is about the Columbine school shootings. Specifically it is an interview with one of the kids, Brooks Brown, who was there and who intimately knew the two shooters. Guess he wrote a book too.
Great 30 minute interview. Worth your time.
The gist is that these two kids were in trouble for a long time and the police had been warned about them for over a year. When the police then said they had had no warning about the shooters, and Brown pointed out that that was not true, the police went after Brown. Holy real life cover up, Batman! A scary tale of how the authorities sometimes have their own interests at heart over yours.
