A new book on police shootings tries to answer what were until very recently the biggest questions in public life

Published July 10, 2025 11:50pm ET



It’s now been more than a decade since the death of Michael Brown, and half a decade since the death of George Floyd, two incidents that thrust police officers’ use of force into the national spotlight, led to protests and riots, and reinvigorated long-standing debates about whether police are biased against black people.

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