Standoff
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Standoff

Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation

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Standoff

Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation

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Standoff is award-winning journalist Jamie Thompson's gripping account of a deadly night in Dallas, told through the eyes of those at the center of the events, who offer a nuanced look at race and policing in America On the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. As officers patrolled a march in Dallas, a young man stepped out of an SUV wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a high-powered rifle. He killed five officers and wounded eleven others. It fell to a small group of cops to corner the shooter inside a community college, where a fierce gun battle was followed by a stalemate. Crisis negotiator Larry Gordon, a 21-year department veteran, spent hours bonding with the gunman—over childhood ghosts and death and shared experiences of racial injustice in America—while his colleagues devised an unprecedented plan to bring the night to its dramatic end. Thompson's minute-by-minute account includes intimate portrayals of the negotiator, a surgeon who operated on the fallen officers, a mother of four shot down in the street, and the SWAT officers tasked with stopping the gunman. This is a deeply affecting story of real people navigating a terrifying crisis and a city's attempts to heal its divisions.

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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.
Year
2020
ISBN
9781250204202
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Discrimination & Race Relations
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Epigraph
  5. Dedication
  6. A Note to the Reader
  7. Prologue
  8. CHAPTER 1: The Negotiator
  9. CHAPTER 2: The Police Chief
  10. CHAPTER 3: The Protestor
  11. CHAPTER 4: Dallas SWAT
  12. CHAPTER 5: The Trauma Surgeon
  13. CHAPTER 6: Wonder Woman
  14. CHAPTER 7: Hotspot Duty
  15. CHAPTER 8: The Foxtrots
  16. CHAPTER 9: The Protest
  17. CHAPTER 10: Ambush
  18. CHAPTER 11: The Offensive
  19. CHAPTER 12: Code 100
  20. CHAPTER 13: The Firefight
  21. CHAPTER 14: Baylor Hospital
  22. CHAPTER 15: Target Identification
  23. CHAPTER 16: White Boy Wayne
  24. CHAPTER 17: Code Yellow
  25. CHAPTER 18: Words or Weapons
  26. CHAPTER 19: The Mayor
  27. CHAPTER 20: The Master Breacher
  28. CHAPTER 21: “Kill ’Em All”
  29. CHAPTER 22: Seeing Ghosts
  30. CHAPTER 23: The Wives
  31. CHAPTER 24: Mind-set
  32. CHAPTER 25: Preparations
  33. CHAPTER 26: The Gullah Wars
  34. CHAPTER 27: Calculations
  35. CHAPTER 28: Tying In
  36. CHAPTER 29: The Thin Blue Line
  37. CHAPTER 30: The Toll Rises
  38. CHAPTER 31: Backup
  39. CHAPTER 32: The Mother
  40. CHAPTER 33: Ready, Ready, Now.
  41. CHAPTER 34: After
  42. CHAPTER 35: Daybreak
  43. CHAPTER 36: The Press Conference
  44. CHAPTER 37: The Memorial
  45. CHAPTER 38: X
  46. CHAPTER 39: The Long Night
  47. CHAPTER 40: Breathe
  48. CHAPTER 41: Loss
  49. CHAPTER 42: Beginnings
  50. CHAPTER 43: Unease
  51. CHAPTER 44: The Bunker Barn
  52. CHAPTER 45: Call It Out
  53. CHAPTER 46: The Prairie
  54. Photos
  55. Source Notes
  56. Index
  57. Acknowledgments
  58. Praise for Standoff
  59. About the Author
  60. Newsletter Sign-up
  61. Contents
  62. Copyright