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Author Taibbi, Matt, author. Title I can't breathe : a killing on Bay Street / Matt Taibbi. Publisher New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2017. Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Superior adult nonfiction 363.23 T131i AVAILABLE Edition First edition. Descript xii, 322 pages ; 25 cm Note Nonfiction. Inlcudes index. Summary "On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has been described as an illegal chokehold during an arrest for selling bootleg cigarettes. The final moments of Garner's life were captured on video and seen by millions...A masterly narrative of urban America and a scathing indictment of the perverse incentives built into our penal system, I Can't Breathe drills down into the particulars of one case to confront us with the human cost of our broken approach to dispensing criminal justice." -- dust jacket. Subject Garner, Eric, -2014. Police -- New York (State) -- New York. Racial profiling in law enforcement -- New York (State) -- New York. Law enforcement -- New York (State) -- New York. Police brutality -- New York (State) -- New York. Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- New York (State) -- New York. Racism -- New York (State) -- New York. Added Title I cannot breathe. I can not breathe. ISBN/ISSN 0812988841 9780812988840
