Long-standing racial tensions in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood explode into months of protests after an unarmed Black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins is pursued, shot, and killed by a mob determined to send a message to Black communities.

In 2023, tensions in Memphis explode when 29-year-old Tyre Nichols dies, allegedly at the hands of a rogue unit within the Memphis PD. Activists take to the streets, igniting a furious backlash to a problem that has plagued the city for centuries.