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"John L. Burris, a nationally renowned civil rights attorney, has spent the past twenty years defending the rights of minorities who have been the victims of police misconduct and excessive use of force. In Blue vs. Black he tells the true, heartbreaking stories of many of them - a young community center director who is savagely beaten by cops before the eyes of the children in his care; a woman who is handcuffed to a chain-link fence by a female officer and humiliated in front of her neighbors, simply because of a minor traffic violation; a father who is pulled over by police officers and…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1999St. Martin's Press · 240 pages · 9780312203924
African AmericansCase studiesCivil rightsDiscrimination in law enforcementPolice brutalityPreventionAfrican americans, civil rightsPolice, complaints against






