Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Setting the stage -- Urban riots and protests -- Mass incarceration -- School to prison pipeline -- The prison industrial complex -- Policing black women's bodies -- Policing trans bodies -- Police killings of unarmed black men -- Wrongful convictions and exoneration -- Intersectionality, color blind racism, and a call to action -- Appendix A: High profile police shootings of black men and the outcome -- Appendix B: Resources for readers -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.