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On Monday, it emerged that Paul Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, were both arrested on domestic violence-like charges of disorderly conduct, following a "family dispute" at their Connecticut home over the weekend. According to the local police chief, the pair sustained only minor injuries, but "there was aggressiveness on both sides", and "they are both victims".
We only know what we know. The 72-year-old singer and his 47-year-old wife may both deserve to be in troubled water. But more often than not, duel arrests like this one occur in a bubble: police too often identify both parties as a victims in a case of intimate partner violence – and then arrest the woman anyway. Indeed, this was not what advocates had in mind when they pushed for better protections for victims of domestic violence. These laws, outside of the Simon home, are very much in dysfunction.
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