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Five Days - Baltimore's Fiery Reckoning (Paperback)
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Five Days - Baltimore's Fiery Reckoning (Paperback)
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'An illuminating portrait of Baltimore ... Readers will be
enthralled' Publishers Weekly A kaleidoscopic account of five days
in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on
the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted
the world. When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an
'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that
video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded
him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray
was in a coma from which he would never recover. In the wake of a
long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like
the final straw - it led to a week of protests empowered by the
Black Lives Matter movement, then five days described alternately
as a riot or an uprising. New York Times bestselling author Wes
Moore tells the story of the five days through his own observations
and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans: Partee, a conflicted
black captain of the Baltimore Police Department; Jenny, a young
white public defender who's drawn into the violent centre of the
uprising herself; Tawanda, a young black woman who'd spent a lonely
year protesting the killing of her own brother by police; and John
Angelos, scion of the city's most powerful family and executive
vice president of the Baltimore Orioles, who had to make choices of
conscience he'd never before confronted. Each shifting point of
view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of a moment
in history with striking resemblances to far more recent events,
which is also an essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of
the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath.
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