The Dismantling of America By Hank Silverberg It has been one of those weeks that makes me worry about the future of the United States as we know it. I am not trying to be Chicken Little here. The sky is NOT falling yet. But I do see some cracks in our Constitutional protections that are growing bigger and need to be patched in a hurry before the gap becomes too wide to repair. In Bridgeport, Connecticut this past week, a reporter named Tara O’Neill was arrested while covering a protest. The protest was like many we have seen over the last few years, local citizens outraged over the handling of an officer-involved shooting of a 15-year- old. It's been two years since Jayson Negron was killed. O’Neill, who works for Hearst Connecticut Media, had been covering the story since the beginning. She tweeted this out after she was released from custody. Tara O'Neill @ Tara_ONeill_ May 9 More I was released after being handcuffed, put in t