With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political...
Police brutality
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Author:Taylor, FlintSummary: - Author:Wright, RichardSummary:
Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer...
- Author:Zirin, DaveSummary:
In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of quiet protests on the field, refusing to stand during the US national anthem. By "taking a knee,...
- Author:Hooper, ChloeSummary:
In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "deep north" of Australia, Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse, his liver ruptured. This...
- Author:Stone, NicSummary:
"Powerful, wrenching.” –JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down
"Raw and gripping." –JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys
"A must-read!” –ANGIE...
- Author:Purnell, DereckaSummary:
For a century, US activists have tried to reform the police. Lawyer and organizer Derecka Purnell details what pushed her and a generation of activists to the idea of abolishing the police. She argues that police cannot be reformed and...
