Black Lives Matter

Abstract

A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) homicide detective returns the shoes of a fifteen-year-old boy, murdered a year before, to the boy’s mother. A six-foot-four, blonde haired, politically conservative, nononsense cop, John Skaggs hands the open shoe box to Barbara Pritchett, a black woman, at the entrance to her South Central home. The shoes had been worn by her son, 15-year-old Dovon Harris, when he died.