Fuck, I don’t know what’s more infuriating, that this happened at all, how incredibly predictable it was, that it hasn’t changed the use of heavy equipment on these tent cities in other areas, or that this comment is somehow the first I heard about this happening.

His name was Cornelius Taylor, he was a resident of Atlanta, and he was killed a few days before MLK Jr day across the street from the church where King was a pastor (archived). The moral arc of the universe is too long.