Summary

On Highway 518, four white men and one Black man were dead. The white men were covered in blood and the Black man was covered with dirt. Identification had been found on the white men, whose testicles had been cut off. The Black man had no identification. At a hotel restaurant in Memphis with Hind and Quip, Ed explained the scene on the highway, relayed to him and Jim by their captain. Hind said that she felt Mama Z was involved somehow.

Delroy and Brady were dealing with a flat tire on Brady’s patrol car when they were approached by a crowd of around 30 to 40 Black men. The men appeared to be saying the word “Rise” (252). The sheriff heard shots fired over the radio from the station, where Ed, Jim, Quip, and Hind were with him. Ed, Jim, and Hind accompanied him to...