Little Girls Lost by Kerley J. A

Author:Kerley, J. A. [Kerley, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2009-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

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Sandhill parked at the end of Nike’s block and strode to a restless crowd surrounding Reverend Damon Turnbull. High in the bed of a pickup with a bullhorn to his lips, he was condemning a white power structure treating black children as throw-aways. The words were inflammatory and, at least as far as Sandhill had seen in his career, untrue. He muttered under his breath. A black man sucking from a brown paper bag looked over the top of his sunglasses.

“What you say?”

“Talking to myself,” Sandhill said, passing by.

“White muthafucker,” the man spat at Sandhill’s back.

Sandhill felt ugliness in the hot air, a smog of hatred and anger. He saw Ryder on the high stoop outside the entrance to Nike’s apartment building. Beside him was Roland Zemain, his uniform traded for paint-stained sweat pants and a tee shirt proclaiming, ROLL TIDE. Zemain had brought two fellow street cops, black guys taut with energy beneath street clothes. They were doing a decent job of looking unobtrusive, homies hanging on the stoop, listening to Turnbull.

Sandhill checked the far end of the block. He knew there’d be cruisers positioned around the corner, waiting for trouble. He hoped they stayed out of sight; gasoline on coals if they showed up. A potential nightmare.

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