29 min
The Butcher's Bill Welcome to the Underground
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- Politics
Captain Frederick Marryat, a Royal Navy officer, novelist and friend of Charles Dickens wrote in his novel "Frank Mildmay" coined the grim wartime description; “butcher’s bill,” i.e. the list of killed and wounded. That gallows nomenclature is sadly appropriate when talking about the number of black and brown bodies that fall to victim to police violence.
Captain Frederick Marryat, a Royal Navy officer, novelist and friend of Charles Dickens wrote in his novel "Frank Mildmay" coined the grim wartime description; “butcher’s bill,” i.e. the list of killed and wounded. That gallows nomenclature is sadly appropriate when talking about the number of black and brown bodies that fall to victim to police violence.
29 min