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The trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea : the police killing of Clifford Glover
- Title
- The trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea : the police killing of Clifford Glover / Thomas Hauser.
- Author
- Hauser, Thomas
- Publication
- New York : Seven Stories Press, 2017.
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- Description
- 284 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "The true story behind Audre Lorde's 1975 poem "Power"--A masterly, gripping and true account of the tragedy of the early-morning shooting of a child and the trial of a policeman for murder that followed. Was it a case of mistaken identity or race hatred--or both? It happened on the morning of Saturday, April 28, 1973, in Queens, New York, at around 5:00 a.m. In the pre-dawn dark, ten-year-old Clifford Glover was walking with his stepfather, Add Armstead, toward the auto salvage yard where Armstead worked, as they did most Saturdays. Patrolman Thomas Shea and his partner, Walter Scott, drove by in an unmarked car. The cops were on the lookout for a pair of armed robbers dressed similarly to Clifford Glover and Add Armstead, and stopped to give chase. The child and his stepfather, who was carrying his wages from the day before, ran, afraid they were going to be robbed. Shots were fired. Armstead flagged down a passing patrol car, not realizing that Clifford was lying on the ground, mortally wounded, the gun that killed him still in the hand of Patrolman Shea, who would become the first New York City cop in fifty years to be charged with committing murder while on duty. A policeman who shot down a ten year old in Queens stood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish blood and a voice said "Die you little motherfucker" and there are tapes to prove it. (from "Power" by Audre Lorde)"--
- Subjects
- Trials (Murder)
- Shea, Thomas Joseph, 1937-
- Trial and arbitral proceedings
- TRUE CRIME > Murder > General
- Trials
- Shea, Thomas Joseph, 1937- > Trials, litigation, etc
- Trials (Murder) > New York (State) > New York
- Glover, Clifford, 1963-1973 > Trials, litigation, etc
- True crime stories
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- True crime stories.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-1187
- ISBN
- 9781609807313
- 1609807316
- LCCN
- 2016054119
- OCLC
- 971614808
- Author
- Hauser, Thomas, author.
- Title
- The trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea : the police killing of Clifford Glover / Thomas Hauser.
- Publisher
- New York : Seven Stories Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-1187