TY - BOOK AU - Dickson,Foster TI - Closed ranks: the Whitehurst case in post-civil rights Montgomery SN - 9781588383631 AV - KF224.W525 D53 2018eb U1 - 344.76105/232 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Montgomery, Alabama PB - NewSouth Books, a division of NewSouth, Inc. KW - Whitehurst, Bernard, KW - Trials (Police misconduct) KW - Alabama KW - Montgomery KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Tort liability of police KW - Police misconduct KW - Law and legislation KW - Mistaken identity KW - Race discrimination KW - Actions and defenses KW - Civil rights KW - Discrimination in criminal justice administration KW - United States KW - Procès (Abus de la police) KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Police KW - Responsabilité civile KW - Erreur sur la personne KW - Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale KW - États-Unis KW - LAW KW - Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Trials KW - Electronic books KW - Trials, litigation, etc N1 - Includes index; Introductory note -- Post-civil rights Montgomery -- Who was Bernard Whitehurst Jr.? -- The death of Bernard Whitehurst Jr. -- Family complications -- The immediate political aftermath -- The closing of the ranks -- Rabbit trails in the records -- The fever pitch, early 1977 -- In Emory Folmar's Montgomery -- An incomplete narrative -- Epilogue : a changed city? N2 - Closed Ranks tells the latter-day story of the Whitehurst Case, a 1975 police shooting in Montgomery, Alabama. In the era of the ""fleeing felon rule, "" African-American victim Bernard Whitehurst Jr. was denied justice by police who planted a gun, courts who ruled against his family, and city officials who wanted to put the controversy behind them. In the forty years since, the Whitehurst Case has lingered as an open wound for his family, who are still waiting for the true story to be told UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1936695 ER -