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* AFatherToHisMen: His record as a lawman is checkered, but Breeland does genuinely care about the deputies beneath him and punches out a former officer for insulting Caleb and Joshua.
** Platt fits this trope when [[spoiler:Breeland's murder]] prompts him to launch a full-on assault to find the killer [[spoiler:until it turns out that the killer is actually him]].



* AFatherToHisMen:
** His record as a lawman is checkered, but Breeland does genuinely care about the deputies beneath him and punches out a former officer for insulting Caleb and Joshua.
** Platt fits this trope when [[spoiler:Breeland's murder]] prompts him to launch a full-on assault to find the killer [[spoiler:until it turns out that the killer is actually him]].



* KarmaHoudini: Played with. [[spoiler:Cox avoids being indicted for shooting Joey and appears to get away with trying to have witnesses killed. However, he's not off the hook completely because Preston is able to pursue a new case against him over civil rights violations at his prisons]].

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* KarmaHoudini: KarmaHoudini:
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Played with. [[spoiler:Cox avoids being indicted for shooting Joey and appears to get away with trying to have witnesses killed. However, he's not off the hook completely because Preston is able to pursue a new case against him over civil rights violations at his prisons]].



* PersecutionFlip: Examined from every angle, as everyone is well aware of the anomalous nature of the shooting in the middle of the multitudes of white cops shooting unarmed black people.



* PersecutionFlip: Examined from every angle, as everyone is well aware of the anomalous nature of the shooting in the middle of the multitudes of white cops shooting unarmed black people.



* RedHerringMole: Primarily embodied by [[spoiler:Janae]], who is repeatedly implied to have been involved with Joey's death and even gets arrested for the crime, but ultimately turns out to be innocent.

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* RedHerringMole: RedHerringMole:
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Primarily embodied by [[spoiler:Janae]], who is repeatedly implied to have been involved with Joey's death and even gets arrested for the crime, but ultimately turns out to be innocent.
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* Shameeka Campbell (Creator/DewandaWise), Joey's mother;

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* Shameeka Campbell (Creator/DewandaWise), (Creator/{{DeWanda Wise}}), Joey's mother;
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* TheLoveSlapOfEpiphany: [[spoiler:Eamons doesn't realize the importance of distancing herself from Cox until her refusal to drop him as a supporter causes Sarah to resign]].
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* Shameeka Campbell (Dewanda Wise), Joey's mother;

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* Shameeka Campbell (Dewanda Wise), (Creator/DewandaWise), Joey's mother;
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Jesse Carr (Jesse Leinbach), an unarmed Caucasian teenager, is shot in the small North Carolina town of Gate Station by Sheriff's Deputy Joshua Beck (Creator/TristanWilds), the town's only African-American officer. Governor Patricia Eamons (Creator/HelenHunt) contacts the Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine if the shooting was lawful. Two African-American DOJ officials receive the assignment - veteran investigator Ashe Akino (Creator/SanaaLathan), who was previously cleared of shooting an unarmed individual and struggles to control her temper, and prosecutor Preston Terry (Creator/StephanJames), a young and confident attorney seeking to build up his reptuation. As they study the shooting, Ashe and Preston soon learn about the unsolved death of African-American teenager Joey Campbell (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), which has seemingly gone unnoticed outside of Gate Station.

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Jesse Carr (Jesse Leinbach), an unarmed Caucasian teenager, is shot in the small North Carolina town of Gate Station by Sheriff's Deputy Joshua Beck (Creator/TristanWilds), the town's only African-American officer. Governor Patricia Eamons (Creator/HelenHunt) contacts the Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine if the shooting was lawful. Two African-American DOJ officials receive the assignment - veteran investigator Ashe Akino (Creator/SanaaLathan), who was previously cleared of shooting an unarmed individual and struggles to control her temper, and prosecutor Preston Terry (Creator/StephanJames), a young and confident attorney seeking to build up his reptuation. As they study the shooting, Ashe and Preston soon learn about the unsolved death of African-American teenager Joey Campbell (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), (Creator/KelvinHarrisonJr), which has seemingly gone unnoticed outside of Gate Station.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: [[spoiler:Joey's death is inspired by the 2015 death of Eric Harris, an unarmed black man who was accidentally shot by Reserve Deputy Bob Bates when he confused his personal handgun for a taser. Like Cox, Bates lacked the qualifications to participate in a police patrol and received his position through being a campaign donor (in his case, to the sheriff). Unlike Cox, however, Bates was found guilty of manslaughter and served a prison sentence.]]

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