Shufelt Gordon H. The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875 9781606354124

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Автор: Shufelt Gordon H.
Название: The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875
ISBN: 9781606354124
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 1606354124
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 184
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2021
Серия: True crime history
Язык: English
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 5.08 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: American Civil War,Black & Asian studies,Criminal procedure,Social discrimination & inequality,True crime,Violence in society, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Подзаголовок: How a white police officer was convicted of killing a black citizen, baltimore, 1875
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: An extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century BaltimoreIn 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour of the attack. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiries into the underlying facts. But in this case, Baltimores white community chose a different path. A coroners jury declined to attribute the killing to accident or self-defense; the states attorney indicted McDonald and brought him to trial; and a criminal court jury convicted McDonald of manslaughter.What makes this work so powerful is that many of the issues that the antipolice brutality movement faces today were the very issues faced by black people in nineteenth-century Baltimore.Both Brown and McDonald represented factions in conflict during a period of social upheaval, and both men left home to escape dire conditions. Yet trouble followed both to Baltimore. While the conviction of McDonald was unique, it was not a racially enlightened moment in policing. The killing of Brown was viewed not as racial injustice, but police violence spreading to their neighborhood. White elites saw the police as an uncontrolled force threatening their well-being. The clubbing and shooting of an unarmed black man only a block away from the wealthy residences of Park Avenue represented a breakdown in the social order-but Jim Crow in Baltimore was not in danger.Prior to 1867 a Maryland statute barred African Americans from testifying against whites in proceedings before police magistrates or in any of the states courts. During the trial of McDonald, the press described the Baltimore police as blue coated ruffians, and there was a general distrust of the police force by both blacks and whites. Browns wife, Keziah, gave damning testimony of Officer McDonalds actions. The jury could not agree on verdicts of first- or second-degree murder, and after an attempt to reach a compromise verdict of second-degree murder failed, the majority acquiesced to the manslaughter verdict.The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown adds to the historiography of policing and criminal justice by demonstrating the pivotal role of the coroners inquest in such cases and by illustrating the importance of social ties and political divisions when a community addresses an episode of police violence.
Дополнительное описание: True crime|Social discrimination and social justice|Ethnic studies|Criminal procedure|Violence and abuse in society|Civil wars|Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)

The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875, Shufelt Gordon H.