"Forgiving Michael Dunn doesn't negate what I’m feeling."

If you don't already read Ta-Nehisi Coates, you should—especially in the aftermath of something like the Michael Dunn verdict.

Yesterday, the Atlantic writer followed up on his earlier interview with Lucia McBath, the mother of Jordan Davis, who Dunn shot and killed. Coates visited McBath in person, taking his own 13-year-old son along. Here's an excerpt from what he wrote about it:

I told her that I was stunned by her grace after the verdict. I told her the verdict greatly angered me. I told her that the idea that someone on that jury thought it plausible there was a gun in the car baffled me. I told her it was appalling to consider the upshot of the verdict—had Michael Dunn simply stopped shooting and only fired the shots that killed Jordan Davis, he might be free today.