'What followed the killing was as revealing as the act itself.
The machinery of the federal government engaged with startling speed, not to slow events down, not to question, not to acknowledge the gravity of what occurred, but to foreclose the narrative before it could breathe.
The language arrived pre-hardened, pre-accusatory, preordained. She was dangerous. She was a threat. She was a domestic terrorist. Her death was framed not as a loss, but as a necessity—didactic, exemplary,'