Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseA devastating frontline account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s Black Lives Matter ... Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America ... essential reading Junot Daz The New York Times Books of 2016Electric ... so well reported so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart Dwight Garner The New York Times A Top Ten Book of 2016Id recommend everyone to read this book ... its not just statistics its not just the information but its the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it. I really enjoyed it Trevor Noah host of Comedy Centrals The Daily ShowA deeply reported book on the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement offering unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate moving portrait of those working to end it In over a year of ontheground reportage Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled across the US to uncover life inside the most heavily policed if otherwise neglected corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the scale of the response to Michael Browns death and understand the magnitude of the problem police violence represents Lowery conducted hundreds of interviews with the families of victims of police brutality as well as with local activists working to stop it. Lowery investigates the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with constant discrimination failing schools crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs. Offering a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect They Cant Kill Us All demonstrates that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. And at the end of President Obamas tenure it grapples with a worrying and largely unexamined aspect of his