Violence and Lies are No Big Deal

Steve Russell
11 min readNov 5, 2019
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Being an account of deviance becoming normalized.

Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY) was not happy being questioned by a TV reporter for NY1, Michael Scotto, about a pending investigation into Grimm’s campaign fundraising. Mr. Grimm walked away and Mr. Scotto had signed off… but the camera was still running when Grimm returned, and told Scotto:

Let me be clear to you, you…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)