Fictional Memorial: The Victims of the Little Damascus Shooting (Absolute Martian Manhunter comic spoilers)

Fictional Memorial: The Victims of the Little Damascus Shooting (Absolute Martian Manhunter comic spoilers) The people killed in the attack on Little Damascus are remembered as members of a community that had become home to many Syrian immigrants and refugees. They were attacked on the streets of their own neighborhood by a gunman who had convinced himself that the people around him were enemies. The neighborhood had a name, familiar streets and a life before the shooting. The people there deserved to move through it without being treated as a threat. Whatever the attacker believed about them, they were human beings entitled to the same safety as anyone else. Their individual biographies are not supplied in the surviving account. That absence cannot justify treating them as an anonymous backdrop to the violence. Each death belongs to the life that preceded it, not merely to the person who ended it. The intervention that stopped the attack could not return those already lost. This remembrance is for them, and for a community left with an absence that the end of the shooting did not resolve. Little Damascus should be remembered as a place where people lived, alongside the knowledge of what was done to them there.