Deliberate Indifference: A Story of Murder And Racial Injustice - Couverture souple

Swindle, Howard

 
9780140233704: Deliberate Indifference: A Story of Murder And Racial Injustice
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0140233709 ISBN 13 : 9780140233704
Editeur : Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

On Christmas Day, 1987, a black man named Loyal Garner, Jr., drove down the wrong road in East Texas and was pulled over by a white police chief. He was taken to jail, beaten unconscious, and hospitalized - after officers came up with a cover story. Although witnesses swore that he was murdered, the policemen were summarily acquitted by a hometown jury. Only after prosecutors in another county wrested control of the case was justice served. In Deliberate Indifference an award-winning investigative journalist tells a true story that resembles a cross between the plot of Mississippi Burning and a frontline report from Daryl Gates's L.A. With a meticulous attention to detail, Howard Swindle extends his inquiry beyond Garner's murder to probe the poisoned heart of American racial injustice. Deliberate Indifference is a profoundly disturbing investigation of sanctioned murder and a miscarriage of justice that brings home hard truths about America's stubborn legacy of racism.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

On Christmas Day, 1987, a black man named Loyal Garner, Jr., drove down the wrong road in East Texas and was pulled over by a white police chief. He was taken to jail, beaten unconscious, and hospitalized - after officers came up with a cover story. Although witnesses swore that he was murdered, the policemen were summarily acquitted by a hometown jury. Only after prosecutors in another county wrested control of the case was justice served. In Deliberate Indifference an award-winning investigative journalist tells a true story that resembles a cross between the plot of Mississippi Burning and a frontline report from Daryl Gates's L.A. With a meticulous attention to detail, Howard Swindle extends his inquiry beyond Garner's murder to probe the poisoned heart of American racial injustice. Deliberate Indifference is a profoundly disturbing investigation of sanctioned murder and a miscarriage of justice that brings home hard truths about America's stubborn legacy of racism.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0140233709
ISBN 13 
9780140233704
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780670839469: Deliberate Indifference: A Story of Murder And Rackial Injustice

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0670839469 ISBN 13 :  9780670839469
Editeur : Viking, 1993
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