
Deadly Force
A Police Shooting and My Family's Search for the Truth
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Lawrence O'Donnell
Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author.
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, 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, James Bowden Jr. left his mother’s house in Roxbury after a visit. As he guided his Buick out of his parking spot, an unmarked police car suddenly blocked his path. 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’ 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.
More timely now than ever, Deadly Force is a powerful indictment of police misconduct, a reminder of this issue’s long, tortured history and of how far we still have to go.
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Larry O'Donnell! At his best, as always.
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When will the killing and lying end?
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Exhaustively detailed story about a civil rights law suit against Boston Police Department.
Meticulous analysis of. A coverup
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my parents raised 3 children without predudice so I believe I was lucky not to feel the bigotry others did. I lived through the race riots but was gifted, as was the oDonnell family with the ability to see both sides.
I remember working at the Robert Breck Brigham during the riots . we we're more concerned about the children of our Haitian CNA then the fact the police had to escort us out of Mission hill during them.
Thank you for the insight into what was going on around me.
Howerver let me add that when I walked from Newton, through Blue Hill Ave to go to work at Carney hospital during after the blizzard of 1978 every person I met along the way was kind and helpful. I then knew we all come together in situations the remind us we are all God's children.
life lessons
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It describes a pattern of coverup that has been repeated so many times in our country. I highly recommend that it be listened to.
Better Than Fiction
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Thank you.
Heartfelt Raw and Eye-Opening
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A good reminder!
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