I Can't Breathe

A Killing on Bay Street

304 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2018 by Ebury Publishing.

ISBN:
978-0-7535-4869-1
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5 stars (1 review)

A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police--from the bestselling author of The Divide

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1) "In many ways, Garner acted as if his own life and health were permanently damaged and disposable, not worth keeping in repair. All he really cared about was the money he kept flowing to his family. His life was ruined the day he got picked up for selling crack when he was eighteen. Maybe before that. But his kids had an unblemished future, so that's what mattered. And the only way he knew how to show that concern was with money.
Even in his interactions with police, the self-annihilating instinct came through. He was more than willing to go to jail, to sleep in the unventilated, urine-soaked air of the 120th Precinct house, so long as they left his money alone."

2) "In Floyd [v. City of New York], the city suddenly stopped denying that enormous numbers of people were being stopped for no good reason.
Instead, the …

Subjects

  • Violent deaths
  • Police-community relations
  • Police, united states
  • African americans, new york (state), new york
  • African americans, social conditions
  • New york (n.y.), social conditions