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THEY CAN'T KILL US ALL
Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL is the first reported book to bring alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America.
Conducting hundreds of interviews over the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington post reporter Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson to Cleveland, Charleston, and Baltimore and back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today.
In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the response to Mike Brown’s death, Lowery speaks to his family and other victims’ families as well as local activists to understand the scale of the problem that police violence represents. By answering the question, “What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?” Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and too few jobs.
Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community’s long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discriminations. THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama and other elected officials: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans in need of both.
Wesley Lowery is a national reporter for the Washington Post who covers law enforcement and justice. He was the paper's lead reporter in Ferguson, Missouri and covering the Black Lives Matter protest movement, and was a member of the team awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for the paper's coverage of police shootings. His reporting has previously appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the response to Mike Brown’s death, Lowery speaks to his family and other victims’ families as well as local activists to understand the scale of the problem that police violence represents. By answering the question, “What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?” Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and too few jobs.
Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community’s long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discriminations. THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama and other elected officials: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans in need of both.
Wesley Lowery is a national reporter for the Washington Post who covers law enforcement and justice. He was the paper's lead reporter in Ferguson, Missouri and covering the Black Lives Matter protest movement, and was a member of the team awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for the paper's coverage of police shootings. His reporting has previously appeared in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
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