Plain talk about police and race is not enough

In the aftermath of President Trump’s deplorable assault on peaceful demonstrators in Lafayette Square and his threat to use the military against Americans, we heard — finally — some candid and unvarnished discussion of police abuse from a surprising array of people.

Perhaps most important to the public debate were the voices of religious leaders who denounced Trump’s use of violence and debasement of the Bible and St. John’s Episcopal Church on Monday. After Trump followed up that stunt with a visit to the St. John Paul II National Shrine...