Short stories tagged with Police Violence

Listing 4 stories.

Keisha's son attends a bankrupt public school system where the all-white teaching staff are abusive and physically violent towards the majority-black student body. She'll do anything to give her child a better life, even if it means forging papers that say she lives in a different neighborhood.

A high-powered lawyer is tasked with defending a wealthy state attorney's son-turned-cop, who shot and killed a black man on the job.

When a young man is brutally assaulted by a police officer, he must try to heal his fractured life.

Apollo is an ordinary kid at a party, a crime fighting justice-seeker, a victorious basketball player, a police officer doing his job, a scared boy running from a villain. His story begins again and again, and he's different every time — but every time, his story ends in the same, terrible way.