Willie Horton has been here before.
But so have we as a country.
And if that fact is lost on some, it takes but a moment now to hear it’ll never be lost on Horton, the former Detroit Tigers star who is honored with a monument at Comerica Park in part because of a moment more than a half-century ago that feels like the one we’re witnessing today.
Protesters in the streets and police on edge. Tear gas and rubber bullets. Fires set and fuses lit.
“Every time I see something like this,” Horton said, his voice cracking with emotion over the phone Monday afternoon, “I think about that.