Whose Streets? and Detroit Show the Difference Between Truth and Verisimilitude

You probably remember the unbearably hot Saturday afternoon in August 2014 when a story popped up on your news feed that an unarmed teenager had been shot by a police officer. For the next few hours, the story kept getting bigger: the growing community outrage, the impromptu protests and, almost as alarming as the shooting itself, the fact that the teenager's body was still lying on the burning street.…