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Originally published in 1968, Hersey's account of this 1967 Detroit police murder of three young black men (and beating of several others) is reprinted here with a new introduction. Hersey interviews many subjects--police, victims, and witnesses--in depth, and examines court proceedings, choosing as the main characters in his account the three police officers accused of masterminding the assault and one of their young victims. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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In 1967 three black men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten by, as John Hersey describes it in The Algiers Motel Incident, an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan State Troopers, National Guardsmen, and private guards who had been directed to the scene." Responding to a telephoned report of sniping, the police group invaded the Algiers Motel and interrogated ten black men and two white women, none of whom were armed, for an hour. By the time the interrogators left, three men had been shot to death and the others, including the women, beaten.
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