Ronnie Davis

Ronnie Davis, 30, a Black man from Detroit, Michigan, came home on July 21, 2013, expecting an ordinary evening in his neighborhood on Seyburn Street. In that stretch of the city, curbside parking wasn’t just a convenience—it was an unspoken system. With no driveways to separate one home from the next, residents treated certain spaces like they were theirs, and small frustrations could simmer into something bigger. That day, after returning from the store, Davis waited in his car for the spo ...