Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation BOTY_2025 —Percival Everett

—Percival Everett

and verbal elegance

published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic

the more important thing is how

and old newspaper articles

Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation BOTY_2025 —Percival EverettStandoff is award winning journalist Jamie Thompsons gripping account of a deadly night in Dallas, told through the eyes of those at the center of the events, who offer a nuanced look at race and policing in America. On the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two Black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. As officers patrolled a march in Dallas, a young man stepped out of an SUV wearing a