Killing in the Name of Stolen Children

A man was killed in the hunt for the Amber Alert-level abduction of Blaise Barnett last month. His death deserves more attention.

Ali Farah pointed at what remained of his doorframe.

He was half awake when he heard someone kick in the first door to the building, he said. Then he heard a second door come down, the one to his apartment. Then the third, to his bedroom.

Farah showed me a line of interior doors in the dilapidated apartment, each with a frame broken at the handle. We stoo…