The city of St. Louis is facing police shortages ... was shot dead in June 2020 while protecting a friend's business from looters, as the protests over the death of George Floyd spiraled out ...

Four years earlier, Ann Dorn lost her husband while he responded a burglar alarm at a friend’s business, which followed ...

The next day, the city of East St. Louis exploded in the worst racial rioting the country had ever seen. Most of the violence -- drive-by shootings, beatings, and arson -- targeted the African ...