Ferguson Report: An Erasure

The Ferguson Report An Erasure Nicole SealeyAlfred A. Knopf, 2023ISBN 9780593535998 Hardcover, 144 pp.9.4 X 7.2 X 0.6 inches | 0.9 pounds A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department  In August 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed Black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and procedures that have become commonplace--from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant violence directed at the Black community. It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning.  Now, award-winning poet Nicole Sealey revisits the investigation in a book that redacts the report, an act of erasure that reimagines the original text as it strips it