Deadly Force: A Police Shooting and My Family’s Search for the Truth Audiobook (Free)

Having a new preface and afterword by the author.

Through the host of MSNBC’s THE FINAL WORD with Lawrence O’Donnell, the riveting story of the 1975 law enforcement shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston-one of the first ever to draw national headlines-and the dramatic investigation and court case that followed.

On the rainy winter evening, James Bowden, Jr. still left his mother’s home in Roxbury after a go to. As he led his Buick out of his parking place, an unmarked law enforcement car suddenly clogged his route. Two about Lethal Power: A Law enforcement Capturing and My Family’s Search for the Truth undercover officials sprang out, working toward his car. Pictures were fired, and Bowden slumped over the steering wheel. Moments afterwards, he was pronounced deceased on entrance at a nearby hospital. The police argued that that they had fired in self-defense, claiming that Bowden was an equipped robbery suspect and that after they had ordered him to stop, he had terminated a go at one of them. And multiple inner investigations with the Boston Police Division exonerated the officers involved.

But Patricia Bowden, James’s widow, knew better. “The truth should come out,” she said at her husband’s funeral. She sought a lawyer prepared to take on the Boston Law enforcement Department and finally discovered one in Lawrence F. O’Donnell, the author’s father, a guy whose previous, unbeknownst to Patricia Bowden, produced him the only man in town who could not refuse her case. O’Donnell embarked on a highly contentious three-year struggle with the Boston Law enforcement Department to win justice for James Bowden.

Even more timely now than ever before, Deadly Force 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.