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In the midst of the protests that have rocked the St. Louis area since former police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murder in September, there have been high and low points for both protesters and police supporters — times each would point to as ones of great turmoil and times they'd tout as tremendous triumph. And while there is little common ground between those who are pro-protest and those who are not, there has been one shared victory:
At least we didn't have to deal with Bono, the most pretentious of all mononymous artists (no small feat), spouting some inane, sanctimonious, wholly unhelpful and entirely uninformed claptrap about our city's turmoils from a St. Louis stage.
To be clear: Celebrities using their positions to speak about social injustices is a good thing!…