Discuss an instance of irony within the text.

In Chapter 2: Tribulations, O'Connell discusses the media’s often sensationalized portrayal of the Black Lives Matter movement. He points out the irony inherent in statements and images that portray the movement as lawless and violent. O'Connell writes that, "The people who were being made to stand for a world without rule of law, in other words, were those who understood most intimately and urgently what it meant to live without the protection of the state, to know that the law had never been intended to protect them in the first place" (35).