Published in
Oct 8, 2020
An encounter outside of a bar in Omaha would leave two men dead and justice unserved. What happened between Jake Gardner and James Scurlock deeply divide this Nebraska community, writes Max Ufberg: “At a moment when America’s institutions seem more sympathetic to white vigilantes than they do to anti-racist protesters, they saw Gardner as a picture of white privilege and systemic racism at its most brazen and depraved — a white male business owner who killed a young Black man one night and was allowed to go home the next.”
