13 days in Ferguson [electronic resource] / Captain Ronald Johnson with Alan Eisenstock.

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On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile African...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Johnson, Ron (Police officer) (Author)
Eisenstock, Alan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Carol Stream, Illinois : Tyndale Momentum, [2018]
Subjects:
Johnson, Ron > (Police officer)
Ferguson (Mo.). > Police Department > Biography.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Missouri > Ferguson.
Police shootings > Missouri > Ferguson > Case studies.
Protest movements > Missouri > Ferguson.
Police-community relations > Missouri > Ferguson.
Police > Missouri > Ferguson.
Police > Missouri > Ferguson > Biography.
African Americans > Violence against > Missouri > Ferguson.
Ferguson (Mo.) > Race relations.
Genre:
Biography.
Case studies.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Thirteen days in Ferguson
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Prologue: Confrontation
  • Michael Brown's body
  • "This is war"
  • "These people"
  • "Why am I different?"
  • Waiting for the storm
  • A different morning
  • "I need answers"
  • "Save our sons"
  • "No more than I can bear"
  • "I am you"
  • A bullet has no name
  • Man, Black man, trooper
  • "Where have you been?"
  • "Trouble doesn't last always"
  • Epilogue: After Ferguson.