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About this book
"An excellent case study of the Bowden killing" from the
New York Timesābestselling author and host of MSNBC's
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (
The Boston Globe).
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 Bostonāone of the first to draw national headlinesāand 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,Ā Deadly ForceĀ 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.
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 Bostonāone of the first to draw national headlinesāand 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,Ā Deadly ForceĀ 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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eBook ISBN
9780062561497Subtopic
Criminal LawTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Epilogue
- Afterword to the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Lawrence OāDonnell
- Copyright
- About the Publisher