Reporter Paul Lewis of London’s Guardian newspaper called Huckleberries last week trying to figure out two police shootings within 14 hours last July in North Idaho. He was amazed at the community anger after the Coeur d’Alene police shooting of Craig Jones’ 2-year-old black Labrador, Arfee. And also by the lack of outrage over the Sandpoint police shooting of a troubled, pregnant woman the night before. I confirmed that Coeur d’Alene police received hate mail and even death threats following the Arfee shooting and pointed him toward CPD spokeswoman Sgt. Christie Wood. And the reaction to the killing of 35-year-old Jeanetta Riley in Sandpoint July 8? Not so much, I said. In a lengthy article Friday (“A tale of two killings: What happened when Idaho police shot a dog and a pregnant woman in one day”), Lewis bottom-lines: “The divergent reactions to the police killings of Riley, a mother of three, and Arfee, a Labrador-hound mix, speaks to a disturbing indifference to some human lives lost during encounters with police.” Lewis provides in-depth background about the two shootings. His report is worth Googling/DFO, Sunday Huckleberries. More here.

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