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Dan Zufanski.

Good evening.

The best-selling author of Narco 80 returns to true murder with a riveting story of mid-1980 San

Diego that placed one young black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly

altered Southern California.

March 31, 1985.

Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying

seven young black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighborhood of southeastern San Diego.

Minutes later, gunshots rang out and the truck's driver,

Sagon Penn, fled the scene in an officer's patrol car.

The incident stunned the city.

What followed would change it forever.

Pen was an idealist who believed in the power of Buddhist chance to bring about the

oneness of humanity.

The two police officers were rising stars in one of the most progressive police departments in the country.

Yet one that had suffered more officers killed in the line of duty than any other.

While the facts of the case were never in dispute, what remained unresolved was what, if anything, could

justify such a violent confrontation.

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