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“When we got close to downtown New Orleans, traffic started backing up,” writes Chuck Perkins, in an excerpt from his new book. “There was a lot of commotion, with sirens blaring and blue lights flashing for the second time in this troubled day. Finally, we could hear one of the National Guardsmen explaining an unbelievable situation to my father. A sniper on the rooftop of the Howard Johnson Hotel had started shooting police officers.” (Illustration by Gus Bennett for The Lens)

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Regardless of how nervous this might make a kid, everything intensifies when your family is Black and big, white, tobacco-spitting cops approach your car in the middle of nowhere.

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