In an effort to grasp the scale of the response to Michael Brown’s death & understand the magnitude of the problem police violence represents, Lowery conducted hundreds of interviews with the families of victims of police brutality, as well as with local activists working to stop it. Lowery investigates the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with constant discrimination, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure & too few jobs. Offering a historically informed look at the standoff between the police & those they are sworn to protect, They Can’t Kill Us All demonstrates that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice.

And at the end of President Obama’s tenure, it grapples with a worrying and largely unexamined aspect of his legacy: … More