“One of the officers requested his identification. Amri responded by pretending to fish in his backpack for documents. Instead, he pulled a gun, shooting one officer in the shoulder … The second patrolmen — trainee Luca Scatà — fired back, killing Amri.” Italian police killed the Berlin truck attacker in a shootout after a traffic stop.

+ The Berlin incident has the far right in Europe calling for closed borders. What will Muslim immigrants to the US face? That depends on which person on the Trump team you ask.

+ WaPo: “The Obama administration on Thursday took the unprecedented step of creating obstacles to a widely-anticipated but poorly understood plan by President-elect Donald Trump to establish a Muslim ban or registry — by dismantling the registry system that already exists.”

+ “Now, along with tens of thousands of civilians, the credibility of the powerful countries and institutions that could have helped them, but didn’t, lies in Aleppo’s rubble and blood.” The New Yorker’s Ben Taub: Aleppo’s ‘evacuation’ is a crime against humanity. (But crimes are only punished if someone is held to account, and that seems increasingly unlikely.)