Standoff : race, policing, and a deadly assault that gripped a nation / Jamie Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Jamie (Journalist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--Violence against--Texas--Dallas.

Police.

Mass shootings--Texas--Dallas.

Mass shootings.

Hostage negotiations--Texas--Dallas.

Hostage negotiations.

Police-community relations--Texas--Dallas.

Police-community relations.

Discrimination in law enforcement--United States.

Discrimination in law enforcement.

Police--Violence against.

United States.

Texas--Dallas.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

xix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

Summary:

"On July 7, 2016, hundreds of protesters gathered in Dallas after the shooting of two black men-Philando Castile and Alton Sterling-by white policemen. One hundred Dallas police officers stood guard. At around nine p.m., a gunman opened fire into the line of officers from behind. Five were killed and a dozen more injured. Senior Cpl. Larry Gordon, a black twenty-one year department veteran, managed to keep the shooter talking, in part by bonding with him, to buy the SWAT officers enough time to come up with a strategy to take him out-one that was extremely controversial and unprecedented on American soil. Thompson's intimate portrait of the lives of the shooter and the hostage negotiator, as well as the officers, the black surgeon who operated on them, and their families, gets to the heart of the deeply pressing issue of race and policing in our country. In the aftermath of the shooting, police forces and white and black communities all over the country were left grappling with questions of who our police force protects, what constitutes a threat, and who is entitled to physical safety or self-defense in this country"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Negotiator

2. The Police Chief

3. The Protester

4. Dallas SWAT

5. The Trauma Surgeon

6. Wonder Woman

7. Hotspot Duty

8. The Foxtrots

9. The Protest

10. Ambush

11. The Offensive

12. Code 100

13. The Firefight

14. Baylor Hospital

15. Target Identification

16. White Boy Wayne

17. Code Yellow

18. Words or Weapons

19. The Mayor

20. The Master Breacher

21. "Kill 'Em All"

22. Seeing Ghosts

23. The Wives

24. Mind-set

25. Preparations

26. The Gullah Wars

27. Calculations

28. Tying In

29. The Thin Blue Line

30. The Toll Rises

31. Backup

32. The Mother

33. Ready, Ready, Now

34. After

35. Daybreak

36. The Press Conference

37. The Memorial

38. X

39. The Long Night

40. Breathe

41. Loss

42. Beginnings

43. Unease

44. The Bunker Barn

45. Call It Out

46. The Prairie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Thompson, Jamie. Standoff

ISBN:

9781250204219

1250204216

OCLC:

1134458271