The Lost Sons of Omaha Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

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by Joe Sexton
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1982198346 | 383 pages | True EPUB | 7.57 MB

From the award-winning journalist Bob Woodward calls "one of the truly great reporters working today,"a searing, no-holds-barred account of two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests that explores the complex political and racial mistrust and division of today’s America.
"A monumental study of violence and grief…one of the most superb testaments about the confusion, despair, and-hopefully-humility that frames our century that one could ever hope to read." -Hilton Als
On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd’s death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old white bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protestor and young father. What followed were two investigations of Scurlock’s death, one conducted by the white district attorney Don Kleine, who concluded that Gardner had…