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The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide PDF

381 Pages·2010·2.71 MB·English
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The Fence A Police Cover-up Along Boston’s Racial Divide Dick Lehr TO KARIN FOR EVERYTHING HUNGER ONLY FOR A TASTE OF JUSTICE HUNGER ONLY FOR A WORLD OF TRUTH. —Tracy Chapman, “All That You Have Is Your Soul” Contents Epigraph The Cast of Characters Map of Boston Prologue: January 25, 1995 Part One—Two Cops and a Drug Dealer 1 Mike Cox 2 Robert “Smut” Brown 3 Kenny Conley 4 The Troubled Boston PD 5 Mike’s Early Police Career 6 Closing Time at the Cortee’s 7 The Murder and the Chase 8 The Dead End Part Two—True Blue 9 “8-Boy” 10 No Official Complaint 11 Can I Talk to My Lawyer? 12 Dave, I Know You Know Something 13 Cox v. Boston Police Department Photographic Insert Part Three—Justice Denied, Then the Trial 14 The White Guy at the Fence 15 The Perjury Trap 16 A Federal Miscarriage of Justice 17 On His Own 18 The Trial Epilogue Acknowledgments Author’s Note on Sources Notes Appendix A: Court Cases Appendix B: Books; Articles and Special Reports Appendix C: Boston Police Department Rules and Regulations; Boston Police Department Internal Investigations; Boston Police Department Labor Arbitration Proceedings; Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office; United States Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts Searchable Terms About the Author Other Books by Dick Lehr Credits Copyright About the Publisher THE CAST OF CHARACTERS ROBERT “SMUT” BROWN Mattapan drug dealer and shooting suspect Smut’s mother MATTIE BROWN Boston police officer assigned to Dorchester JIMMY BURGIO

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The Boston police officers who brutally beat Michael Cox at a deserted fence one icy night in 1995 knew soon after that they had made a terrible mistake. The badge and handgun under Cox's bloodied parka proved he was not a black gang member but a plainclothes cop chasing the same murder suspect his
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