It ain’t.

Thank stringer Ruth Fuller and the Sun-Times desk for not bothering to look this up:

Tio Hardiman, former executive director of the group CeaseFire, also spoke at the gathering Saturday in Zion [to protest killing of 17-year-old by a policeman].

“Every 28 hours, an African American is shot or killed by a police officer in America,” Hardiman said. “Select — not all — police believe they are above the law.”

They could have done so easily, googling “every 28 hours” and finding something viral and false about this claim:

The figure “every 28 hours” comes from an April 2013 report titled “Operation Ghetto Storm” by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The report analyzed officer-involved killings of African-American victims in 2012. The report “is a window offering a cold, hard, and fact-based view into the thinking and practice of a government and a society that will spare no cost to control the lives of Black people,” according to the preface.

However:

It’s not hard to debunk the claims using basic findings and methodologies from the report. (Twitter user @FeministaJones did it in a series of tweets using Storify.)

As for the rest of the debunking, you can look it up. As could Tio Hardiman, Ruth Fuller, and the entire Sun-Times organization, on whom and which, fie!

Cantors at Catholic mass get out of hand sometimes, like the one at a recent mass I attended who sang well as far as I could tell, but alas, sang too loudly (belting it out), too long (every damn verse of whatever it was), and too often (does the cantor have that many openings usually?).

This one almost stole the show, upstaging the altar happenings, quiet prayerful reflection time, and in general forgetting that she is not the star of the event, but supporting case member.