Now, the streets of Omaha and other American cities were convulsing with Black Lives Matter protests.Ī woman jumped on Gardner’s back, and then Scurlock. Gardener was a white Marine veteran of Iraq and had returned to his hometown and opened the bar, which had sustained sharp losses when COVID-19 broke out.
Video shows him trashing an architecture office near Jake Gardner’s nightclub in the city’s Old Market district. Scurlock, a new dad, was not thinking like one on that May 30, the third day of upheaval following Floyd’s death. James Scurlock and Jake Gardner’s lives collided as part of a national unraveling following the death of George Floyd, a Black man, after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd’s neck until he could no longer breathe. “The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy,” by Joe Sexton (Scribner)Īt the intersection of racial tension, economic disparity, social media misinformation and guns, two sons of Omaha died in a made-in-America tragedy in 2020.
This cover image released by Scribner shows "The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy" by Joe Sexton.
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