By Dick Lehr
A riveting, true-life account of violence, racial injustice, and betrayal in the ranks of the Boston Police Department
The Boston law enforcement officials who brutally beat Michael Cox at a abandoned fence one icy evening in 1995 knew at once they'd made a poor mistake. The badge and handgun below Cox's bloodied parka proved it: He used to be no longer a black gang member yet a plainclothes officer who have been chasing an analogous homicide suspect they were.
While Cox was once being overwhelmed, Officer Kenny Conley chased down and captured the suspect. in a while, as Cox waited for an apology from his division, federal prosecutors accused Conley of mendacity while he denied witnessing Cox's beating. either Cox and Conley grew up in Boston and had committed their lives to serving the Boston Police division, but if they wanted its help, they have been abandoned.
A extraordinary paintings of investigative journalism, The Fence information the stunning tale of the assault, the tried cover-up via law enforcement officials beholden to a "blue wall of silence," and the sour repercussions at the lives of these concerned. It follows Cox's 1998 federal civil rights trial opposed to the Boston Police division and contours a various forged of characters, together with the sufferers, their households, the officials accused within the beating, urban officers, and the particular homicide suspect—all set opposed to the wealthy backdrop of Boston.
Like J. Anthony Lukas's 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning vintage universal flooring, The Fence examines Boston's race kinfolk and the unwritten police code of protecting up throughout the intimate lens of these who skilled the crime at once. through coming to grasp the officials and criminals introduced jointly that evening on the fence—and the households whose lives have been replaced endlessly as a result—we feel how deeply the lines of prejudice run during this urban nonetheless haunted by means of tribalism and racial tension.
Boston journalist Dick Lehr has written a gritty, attractive true-crime tale with strange depth—a chilling exploration of what occurs whilst worry of admitting error combines with a police tradition of mendacity to undermine justice.
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Publicizing your stolen art will make the works impossible to sell. Contact Interpol. ” Interpol? The Art Loss Register? Wolfond had never heard of them. About a year and a half later, when I showed up at the Lonsdale Gallery to write a piece about the burglaries, Wolfond hadn’t taken Czegledi’s advice: he was still nervous about moving his story into the public arena. He had settled the insurance already and was fearful of the thief’s reprisal if he spoke openly about the burglaries. Still, I got the sense from him that he wanted to talk.
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