Deadly Force (ePub)
Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author, Deadly Force is the riveting...
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Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author, Deadly Force is the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston-one of the first to draw national headlines-and the dramatic investigation and court case that followed.
On a rainy winter night, as James Bowden, Jr. left his mother's Roxbury house in his Buick, two undercover officers sprang out, running toward his car. Shots were fired, and Bowden slumped over the wheel. Moments later, he was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. The police argued that they had fired in self-defense, claiming that Bowden was an armed robbery suspect and that after they had ordered him to stop, he had fired a shot at one of them. And multiple internal investigations by the Boston Police Department exonerated the officers involved.
But Patricia Bowden, James's widow, knew better. "The truth will come out," she said at her husband's funeral. She sought a lawyer willing to take on the Boston Police Department and finally found one in Lawrence F. O'Donnell, the author's father, a man whose past, unbeknownst to Patricia Bowden, made him the only man in town who could not refuse her case. O'Donnell embarked on a highly contentious three-year battle with the Boston Police Department to win justice for James Bowden.
Timelier than ever,Deadly Forceis a powerful indictment of police misconduct, a reminder of this issue's long, tortured history and of how far we still have to go.
Lawrence O'Donnell is the host of The Last Word on MSNBC. Formerly an Emmy Awardwinning executive producer and writer for The West Wing, O'Donnell also served as senior adviser to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and was chief of staff of two Senate committees. O'Donnell is the New York Times bestselling author of Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.
- Autor: Lawrence O'Donnell
- 2023, 476 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Harper Collins
- ISBN-10: 0062561499
- ISBN-13: 9780062561497
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.11.2023
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