As the police drove away with the young man, amid a shower of bottles, White drivers began to be stopped and beaten. The barbershop across the road, and the liquor store, were looted and then went up in flames. Fyre played the clown as he went through an impromptu sobriety test—“shucking and jiving” for his friends on the streets, the arresting officer recorded. Then, there was pushing and shoving; the police hit Fyre with a baton, and one officer a shotgun. Fyre’s mother, Rena, tried to intervene and was handcuffed. The neighbourhood was burning hot, angry and crazy: “Everyone was...
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