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Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him." --
42) If I die tonight
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Follows the shooting of Amadou Diallo by four members of the New York City Police Department Street Crimes Unit. Filmmaker Seyi heard chants on the street from heartbroken and enraged voices, and quickly realized there are two sides to every story and the truth is often found where you least expect it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Unarmed citizens shot by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations. We've heard the individual stories. Now a leading public intellectual and acclaimed journalist offers a powerful, paradigm-shifting analysis of America's current state of emergency, finding in these events a larger and more troubling truth about race, class, and what it means to be "Nobody." Protests in Ferguson, Missouri and across the United States following...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store." --
Author
Publisher
DW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 12 Seconds in the Dark: A Police Officer's Firsthand Account of the Breonna Taylor Raid, Sgt. Mattingly, the lead officer on the scene, takes readers inside the Louisville Metro Police Department's response to suspected criminal activity that night."--
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Series
Publisher
Librairie générale française
Pub. Date
Impr. 2008.
Language
Français
Description
"Une banale arrestation tourne mal. Une jeune fille est tuée par balle. Le lieutenant Lindsay Boxer est-elle responsable de cette bavure? Mise en accusation, Lindsay va devoir défendre à la fois sa carrière et sa vie. Alors qu'elle attend son procès dans le paisible village de Half Moon Bay, une série de crimes vient troubler le calme de l'endroit. Lindsay est convaincue qui'il existe un lien entre ces meurtres et une vieille affaire non résolue...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The harrowing true story of Robbie Tolan, a young black man who was shot in the chest by a white police officer ... in his own driveway. NO JUSTICE is the harrowing story of Robbie Tolan, who early on one New Year's Eve morning, found himself being rushed to the hospital. A white police officer had shot him in the chest after mistakenly accusing him of stealing his own car ... while in his own driveway. In a journey that took nearly a decade, Tolan...
50) Magnum force
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Callahan finds himself fighting against a squad of vigilante cops.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a firestorm of emotion and calls for accountability. When he becomes the first NYPD officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes complicated, igniting one of the largest Asian-American protests in history, disrupting a legacy of solidarity, and putting an uneven...
52) 16 shots
Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued. After the police initially declared the shooting as justified, journalists and activists fought for footage of the event to be released, sending the Chicago Police Department and local Chicago government officials into upheaval as the community demanded justice"--Container.
53) Magnum force
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
54) Fire on the levee: the murder of Henry Glover and the search for justice after Hurricane Katrina
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab describes his struggles to investigate a mysterious, post-Katrina death in New Orleans that led him to uncover a police shooting and subsequent burning of the victim's body."--
Author
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book explores who George Floyd was, what happened the day he died, and the protests that followed. Floyd's death caused a wave of protests across the United States and around the world calling for an end to police violence."--
"On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died while in the custody of four officers of Minnesota's Minneapolis Police Department. One of the officers had knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly ten minutes. Floyd's death caused a wave...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile African American community and the local police, Johnson, a 30-year law enforcement veteran and an African American, did the unthinkable; he took off his bullet-proof...
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What started as a hashtag in 2013 quickly grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter examines the police shootings that fueled the movement, the events that led up to racial tensions in the United States, and the goals the movement has set for the future. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional...
Author
Publisher
Chioma Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On the way home from their twentieth wedding anniversary celebration, upstanding citizens Gerald and Lisa Madison are killed in their car in the presence of their son Marcus by law enforcement officers. The incident ignites a revolutionary change in Marcus, one that the country may not survive. A secret society emerges to support the young Marcus and change the balance of power. The Rebel Marcus Madison takes contemporary issues and knits them into...
59) Power on!
Author
Language
English
Description
This lively graphic novel follows a diverse group of teenage friends as they discover that computing can be fun, creative, and empowering. Taylor, Christine, Antonio, and Jon seem like typical young teens -- they communicate via endless texting, they share jokes, they worry about starting high school, and they have each other's backs. But when a Black man is shot and killed by police in their city, they are outraged -- and then they learn that he...
