Deliberate Indifference: A Story of Racial Injustice and Murder
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140233709
ISBN13:9780140233704
Release Date:March 1994
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:352 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"
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Howard Swindel has ripped away the curtain of racial hatred, suspicion, and fear that has gripped Sabine County, Texas since the 1800's. Some in Sabine County still proudly display an old picture post card showing several lynched black human beings. The rock that Swindel turned over some 20 years ago continues to conceal the same degraded attitudes, ignorance, and sickness that existed then and 100 years ago. The Confederate battle flag continues to wave in front of broken down single-wides in many parts of Sabine County. Anyone contemplating a move to Sabine County should read this work by Mr. Swindel before making a decision.
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