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From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the riveting story of a 1975 law enforcement shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston-one of the first to draw national headlines-and the dramatic investigation and court case that followed.

On the rainy winter night, James Bowden, Jr. still left his mother’s house in Roxbury after a check out. As he led his Buick out of his parking place, an unmarked law enforcement car suddenly obstructed his path. Two about Deadly Push: A Police Shooting and My Family’s Seek out the reality undercover officials sprang out, working toward his car. Shots were terminated, and Bowden slumped over the steering wheel. Moments later on, he was pronounced useless on entrance at a nearby hospital. The police argued that they had terminated in self-defense, declaring that Bowden was an armed robbery suspect and that after they got ordered him to stop, he had fired a shot at one of these. And multiple inner investigations from the Boston Police Department exonerated the officers involved.

But Patricia Bowden, James’s widow, knew better. “The reality will come out,” she said at her husband’s funeral. She wanted a lawyer ready to undertake the Boston Police Department and lastly found one in Lawrence F. O’Donnell, the author’s dad, a guy whose previous, unbeknownst to Patricia Bowden, made him the only man around who cannot refuse her case. O’Donnell embarked on an extremely contentious three-year struggle with the Boston Police Department to earn justice for James Bowden.

More timely now than ever, Deadly Force is a powerful indictment of police misconduct, a reminder of the issue’s lengthy, tortured background and of how far we still need to go.