Standoff

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

Jamie Thompson

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Henry Holt & Company Inc
09 November 2020

True crime; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Police & security services

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 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. Their stories go to the heart of the deeply pressing issue of race and policing in our country, and reflect America's divide over how to view the men and woman assigned to protect us.

By: Jamie Thompson
Imprint: Henry Holt & Company Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 552g
ISBN: 9781250204219
ISBN 10: 1250204216
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jamie Thompson covered the Dallas police shooting for The Washington Post. Her later account of that night for The Dallas Morning News won an Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in writing. She has been a contributing editor for D Magazine and an associate professor of journalism at the University of Dallas. Her work also has appeared in Texas Monthly and the Tampa Bay Times.

Reviews for Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation

Spellbinding and meticulously researched...This standout account is both a riveting page-turner and a nuanced portrait of one of contemporary America's most divisive social issues. --Publishers Weekly, *starred review* A nail-biting and nuanced true-life police procedural. --Kirkus Reviews, *starred review* Standoff, Jamie Thompson's deeply researched and elegantly rendered account of the Dallas police shootings, lays the compelling experience of the individual against the insidious tides of racism and violence within our society. The events of July 7th, 2016 are gripping and terrifying. The political, social, and historical structures surrounding these hours are meticulously explored and illuminating. And each individual navigating decisions with mortal consequences shimmers with life, each offering a stunning depth of experience and perspective--not only into the courage of their various professions, but into the soul of a fragile, resilient country. --Jeff Hobbs, New York Times bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace