Talking to Strangers

Michael Brown was shot to death: Rachel Clarke and Christopher Lett, “What happened when
Michael 
Brown 
met 
Officer 
Darren 
Wilson,” 
CNN, 
November 
11, 
2014,
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/08/us/ferguson-brown-timeline/.
In Baltimore, a young black man named Freddie Gray…Scott was killed on April 4, 2015:
Peter Herman and John Woodrow Cox, “A Freddie Gray primer: Who was he, how did he die,
why 
is 
there 
so 
much 
anger?” 
Washington 
Post, 
April 
28,
2015,https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/04/28/a-freddie-gray-primer-who-
was-he-how-did-he-why-is-there-so-much-anger.  For  Philando  Castile,  see  Mark  Berman,
“Minnesota officer charged with manslaughter for shooting Philando Castile during incident on
Facebook,” Washington Post, November 16, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-
nation/wp/2016/11/16/prosecutors-to-announce-update-on-investigation-into-shooting-of-
philando-castile/?utm_term=.1e7914da2c3b.  For  Eric  Garner,  see  Deborah  Bloom  and  Jareen
Imam,  “New  York  man  dies  after  chokehold  by  police,”  CNN,  December  8,  2014,
https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/20/justice/ny-chokehold-death/index.html.  For  Walter  Scott,  see
Michael  Miller,  Lindsey  Bever,  and  Sarah  Kaplan,  “How  a  cellphone  video  led  to  murder
charges  against  a  cop  in  North  Charleston,  S.C.,”  Washington  Post,  April  8,  2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/08/how-a-cell-phone-video-
led-to-murder-charges-against-a-cop-in-north-charleston-s-c/?utm_term=.476f73934c34.