A City Divided: Race, Fear and the Law in Police Confrontations

Download or read book A City Divided: Race, Fear and the Law in Police Confrontations written by David A. Harris and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high school honors student with no police record encounters the police outside his home. He emerges from the confrontation bruised and beaten. The police charge him with serious crimes; he swears he did nothing wrong. When the story becomes public, an American city faces protests, deep division and a long quest for justice. "City Divided" tells the story of the case involving 18-year-old Jordan Miles and three Pittsburgh Police officers. The book takes an in-depth look at the opposing stories, and at race and the fear it incites, to find answers. What happened between the police and the teen, and what went wrong? Can the courts respond with a just solution? And how can we prevent these tragedies in the future?