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13 days in Ferguson : a memoir by Captain Ronald Johnson with Alan Eisenstock is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 American community and the local police, Johnson, a 30-year law enforcement veteran and an African American, did the unthinkable; he took off his bullet-proof vest and joined the protesters. The 13 days and nights that followed were the most trying of Johnson's life--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually. Officers in his own command called him a traitor. Lifelong friends stopped speaking to him. The media questioned and criticized his every decision. Alone at the center of the firestorm, with only his family and his faith to cling to, Johnson persevered in his belief that the only way to effectively bridge the divide between black and blue is to--literally--walk across it. In 13 Days in Ferguson , Johnson shares, for the first time, his view of what happened during the thirteen turbulent days he spent stabilizing the city of Ferguson, and the extraordinary impact those two histori

Who reads 13 days in Ferguson : a memoir?

Author

Captain Ronald Johnson with Alan Eisenstock

Publisher

Tyndale Momentum

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496416575

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Religion, Science