Fire on the levee : the murder of Henry Glover and the search for justice after Hurricane Katrina
The former federal prosecutor and founder of the Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his battle to crack open a police shooting and cover-up in Hurricane Katrina-era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk. That folder contained two items: a story from The Nation magazine looking into mysterious deaths in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and an autopsy report for a man named Henry Glover, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car two weeks after the storm. The autopsy report, bafflingly, listed no cause of death. But according to the Nation story, a seriously wounded Glover had last been seen in a car that had been driven away by New Orleans police officers.
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- ISBN: 9781335429261 (hardcover)
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473 pages : illustration ; 24 cm - Publisher 2023
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Table of Contents
Fire on the Levee : The Killing of Henry Glover and the Quest for Justice after Hurricane Katrina
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Selected Individuals | 11 | |
Author's Note | 17 | |
Prologue | 19 | |
Chapter 1 | A Thin Brown Folder | 27 |
Chapter 2 | Drop Me Off in New Orleans | 35 |
Chapter 3 | Peeling the Onion | 55 |
Chapter 4 | A Bad Shoot | 67 |
Chapter 5 | "Or Whatever" | 83 |
Chapter 6 | Us and Them | 98 |
Chapter 7 | A Thousand Words | 121 |
Chapter 8 | Unusual Suspects | 141 |
Chapter 9 | Tourist Attraction | 150 |
Chapter 10 | Wrong Place, Wrong Time | 163 |
Chapter 11 | Charged | 179 |
Chapter 12 | On the Threshold | 199 |
Chapter 13 | Speak the Truth | 214 |
Chapter 14 | Telling Stories | 225 |
Chapter 15 | Case-in-Chief | 239 |
Chapter 16 | Speaking Up | 264 |
Chapter 17 | Not a Friendly Place | 283 |
Chapter 18 | A Society for the Living | 297 |
Chapter 19 | Handle the Truth | 319 |
Chapter 20 | The Last Word | 333 |
Chapter 21 | Sending a Message | 350 |
Chapter 22 | In Between | 363 |
Chapter 23 | Groundhog Day | 381 |
Chapter 24 | Breakdown | 403 |
Chapter 25 | Chasing Justice | 409 |
Epilogue | 420 | |
Acknowledgments | 439 | |
Endnotes | 443 |