Say brother. In the matter of Levi Hart / directed by George Rivera.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Barrow-Murray, Barbara, producer.

Rivera, George, director.

WGBH Video (Firm), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Crimes against--Massachusetts.

African Americans.

Police brutality--Massachusetts.

Police brutality.

Police misconduct--Massachusetts.

Police misconduct.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 min.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : WGBH Boston Video, 1981.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

This program investigates the events the night Levi Hart, a 14-year-old African American youth from Roxbury, Mass., was killed in a police chase. (Hart, and two other Roxbury youths had stolen and car. When the officers caught up to them, Hart was shot, arguably by Richard Bourque in an act of police brutality.) Say Brother, in a documentary-style program, interviews Andrea Swores (a teacher of Hart's), Jean Hart (Levi Hart's mother), Judge Richard L. Banks (who presided over the inquest), Dr. Luke G. Tedeschi (who performed the second autopsy on Hart's body), Henry F. Owens, III (the Hart family lawyer), and attorney Frank J. McGee (who represented police officer Richard Bourque in the lawsuit that followed). Program features the additional commentary of state representative Doris Bunte and Saundra Graham, the comments of the Chairman of the National Black United Front Rev. Herbert Daughtry, and dramatic reenactments of the morning Hart was killed and of three testimonials from the legal transcript of the initial inquest investigating the shooting (those of eyewitness Harcourt Lewis, Roxbury youth Darrius Williams, and Boston police officer Richard Bourque).

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed May 14, 2015).

OCLC:

911713339