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092 0 363|bengelska
100 1 Moore, Wes,|d1978-|4aut
245 10 Five days :|bthe fiery reckoning of an American city /
|cWes Moore with Erica L. Green
250 First edition
264 1 New York :|bOne World,|c[2020]
264 4 |c©2020
300 xxviii, 285 pages|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Includes index
520 "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 he would never
recover from. In the wake of a long history of police
abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like a final straw--
it led to a week of protests and then five days described
alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire
city on edge, and caught the nation's attention. Wes Moore
is one of Baltimore's most famous sons--a Rhodes Scholar,
bestselling author, decorated combat veteran, White House
fellow, and current President of the Robin Hood
Foundation. While attending Gray's funeral, he saw every
strata of the city come together: grieving mothers;
members of the city's wealthy elite; activists; and the
long-suffering citizens of Baltimore--all looking to
comfort each other, but also looking for answers. Knowing
that when they left the church, these factions would
spread out to their own corners, but that the answers they
were all looking for could only be found in the city as a
whole, Moore--along with Pulitzer-winning coauthor Erica
Green--tells the story of the Baltimore uprising. Through
both 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 center 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 DeAngelo, scion of the city's most
powerful family and owner of the Baltimore Orioles, who
has to make choices of conscience he'd never before
confronted. Each shifting point of view contributes to an
engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most
consequential moments in our recent history--but also an
essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of the
violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its
aftermath"--|cProvided by publisher
520 Baltimore 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 he would
never recover from. This killing led to a week of protests
and then five days described alternately as a riot or an
uprising that set the entire city on edge, and caught the
nation's attention. Moore attended Gray's funeral, and saw
every strata of the city come together, all looking to
comfort each other, but also looking for answers. Through
shifting points of view, Moore and Green create an
engrossing account of the deep causes of the violence--
and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath. --
adapted from jacket
600 10 Gray, Freddie,|d1989-2015
648 7 2000-talet|2sao
648 7 2015|2fast
650 0 Baltimore Riots, Baltimore, Md, 2015
650 7 Rasism|2sao
650 7 Polisbrutalitet|2sao
650 7 Afroamerikaner|2sao
650 7 Race relations|2fast
650 7 Police brutality|2fast
650 7 African Americans|xSocial conditions|2fast
651 0 Baltimore (Md)|xRace relations
651 7 Förenta staterna|2sao
651 7 Förenta staterna|zMaryland|2sao
651 7 Maryland|zBaltimore|2fast
700 1 Green, Erica L.|4aut
