Splintered River

<p>Malcolm Douglas runs from a convenience store.</p><p><br></p><p>Officer Mike Hargreaves orders the young Black man to stop but Malcolm raises his hand and Officer Hargreaves shoots him only to realize that Malcolm's 'weapon' was a hot dog not a gun. </p><p><br></p><p>In small-town Louisiana the shooting of a Black teen by a white cop threatens to divide not only the community but the South at large and potentially the country thanks to a shadowy white nationalist organization and politicians not unfamiliar with scandal.</p><p><br></p><p>Mounting violence a movement for an independent Black nation-state and a court battle challenging interpretations of the Second Amendment may divide the United States forever. </p><p><br></p><p>Will a cast of unlikely heroes- a grieving mother an institutionalized spouse of a high-ranking official a Supreme Court justice and a journalist looking for her own redemption- heal the chasms?</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>