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August 13 - October 9, 2019
He believed in a fire-and-brimstone hell and had no sympathy for sinners whom he couldn’t convert.
They say a rich man can’t sleep, but a broke man can’t get enough to eat.”
The famous Harlem detective-team of Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones had been assigned to keep order.
Colored folks didn’t respect colored cops. But they respected big shiny pistols and sudden death.
they believed in shooting first and questioning the bodies afterward.
It was the code of Harlem for one brother to help another lie to white cops.
Hank looked into the muzzle of the .45 and froze. His heart stopped beating, his lungs stopped breathing, his blood stopped flowing.
Exclamations in seven languages were heard.
