
The scenario where two off-duty police officers don’t walk past the childhood home of Martin Luther King Jr. is too terrible to contemplate. It would have been the destruction of a piece of American history. Last Thursday, in Atlanta, Georgia, two off-duty police officers spotted a woman dumping gasoline all over the home where the civil rights leader was born. A five-gallon gas can was emptied on the residence's porch. The two officers asked the woman what she was doing, and she never responded. She wasn’t aggressive, just deadest in...