Deliberate Indifference: A Story of Racial Injustice and Murder
by Swindle, Howard
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670839469
- ISBN 13
- 9780670839469
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Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Gulf Coast Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0670839469-3-31926503
- Title
- Deliberate Indifference: A Story of Racial Injustice and Murder
- Author
- Swindle, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670839469
- ISBN 13
- 9780670839469
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993-02-01
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 22 oz