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The Black and the Blue

A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America¿s Law Enforcement

de Matthew Horace, Ron Harris ...

Narrado por Matthew Horace ...

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9 hora 29 minutos

During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his service- when Horace found himself face down on the ground ... Leer más

$27.99 USD

During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his service- when Horace found himself face down on the ground
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The Criminal Record Complex

Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America

de Melissa Burch ...

Narrado por Bill Andrew Quinn ...

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7 hora 42 minutos

Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions. In this powerful analysis, Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time—discrimination on the basis of criminal records. Chronicling the daily interactions of hiring managers, workforce ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions. In this powerful analysis, Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time—discrimination on the basis of criminal records. Chronicling the daily interactions of hiring managers, workforce
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Anatomy of Injustice

A Murder Case Gone Wrong

de Raymond Bonner ...

Narrado por Mark Bramhall ...

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11 hora 11 minutos

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner comes the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His ... Leer más

$20.95 USD

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner comes the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His
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The Fall of Affirmative Action

Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education

de Justin Driver ...

Narrado por Frits Zernike ...

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6 hora 25 minutos

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFor decades, affirmative action reshaped not just American higher education but the broader society, opening doors that had been closed for centuries and transforming who entered the pathways to power. But the Supreme Court in 2023 killed affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a decision hailed by the right as a triumph of ... Leer más

$20.00 USD

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFor decades, affirmative action reshaped not just American higher education but the broader society, opening doors that had been closed for centuries and transforming who entered the pathways to power. But the Supreme Court in 2023 killed affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a decision hailed by the right as a triumph of
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Blue-Coated Terror

Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality

de Jeffrey S. Adler ...

Narrado por Arnell Powell ...

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7 hora 42 minutos

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of policing in the United StatesContrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of policing in the United StatesContrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well

The Permanence of Racism

de Derrick Bell ...

Narrado por Brad Raymond ...

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8 hora 22 minutos

The groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice“Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

The groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice“Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism
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Gideon's Promise

A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice

de Jonathan Rapping ...

Narrado por Frank Gerard ...

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8 hora 49 minutos

A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration.Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based
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No Reasons to Die

de James Mcenge ...

Narrado por Marshall Chambers ...

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9 hora 40 minutos

"This story is a work of fiction, seen through the eyes of a black individual who has experienced the wrath and witnessed the hate in the eyes of a white officer. In America, there is a pledge to protect and serve all individuals, an oath to uphold the constitution and treat everyone equally. Therefore, I chose to interview ten black men at a bustling stop, waiting for their orders to be served. ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

"This story is a work of fiction, seen through the eyes of a black individual who has experienced the wrath and witnessed the hate in the eyes of a white officer. In America, there is a pledge to protect and serve all individuals, an oath to uphold the constitution and treat everyone equally. Therefore, I chose to interview ten black men at a bustling stop, waiting for their orders to be served.
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Chokehold

Policing Black Men

de Paul Butler ...

Narrado por JD Jackson ...

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8 hora 53 minutos

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Best Book of 2017“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men.”—The Wash... ... Leer más

$35.99 USD

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Best Book of 2017“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men.”—The Wash...
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Racial Emotion at Work

Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace

de Tristin K. Green ...

Narrado por Linda Jones ...

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6 hora 13 minutos

This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace—exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it.Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race—and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace—exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it.Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race—and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized
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Calculating Race

Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment

de Benjamin Wiggins ...

Narrado por Eric Jason Martin ...

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4 hora 12 minutos

In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.Wiggins begins by tracing how the life insurance industry utilized ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.Wiggins begins by tracing how the life insurance industry utilized
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Hitler's American Model

The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

de James Q. Whitman ...

Narrado por James Anderson Foster ...

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5 hora 36 minutos

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to
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He Calls Me By Lightning

The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

de S. Jonathan Bass ...

Narrado por Mirron Willis ...

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13 hora 40 minutos

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism

de Bari Weiss ...

Narrado por Bari Weiss ...

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5 hora 50 minutos

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • BARI WEISS NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LISTThe prescient founder of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.**“A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • BARI WEISS NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LISTThe prescient founder of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.**“A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York
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Misjustice

How British Law is Failing Women

de Helena Kennedy ...

Narrado por Helena Kennedy ...

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11 hora 1 minutos

Brought to you by Penguin.Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner.Every seven minutes a woman is raped.The police receive one phone call per minute about domestic violence.Now is the time for change.Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law. From the shocking lack of female judges to the scandal of ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

Brought to you by Penguin.Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner.Every seven minutes a woman is raped.The police receive one phone call per minute about domestic violence.Now is the time for change.Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law. From the shocking lack of female judges to the scandal of
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White Lawyer Black Power

A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South

de Donald A. Jelinek ...

Narrado por Keith Sellon-Wright ...

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11 hora 7 minutos

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years.In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years.In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans
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Policing the Second Amendment

Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race

de Jennifer Carlson ...

Narrado por Teri Schnaubelt ...

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8 hora 6 minutos

The United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked—Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. How does this perspective shape what is considered lawful force? Who can engage in violence and who is punished for ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

The United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked—Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. How does this perspective shape what is considered lawful force? Who can engage in violence and who is punished for
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Conduct Unbecoming

Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military

de Randy Shilts ...

Narrado por Daniel Henning ...

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38 hora 50 minutos

"A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On—The New York Times Book Review.Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a searing ... Leer más

$34.99 USD

"A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On—The New York Times Book Review.Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a searing
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To hell and back - A Policewoman's story

de Carolyn Pethick ...

Narrado por Molly Pethick ...

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4 hora 28 minutos

Carolyn Pethick joins the police academy at the age of 21, having always wanted to be a police officer her whole life. She completes her training and does well, and is then assigned to the Victoria Police Station. Here she soon finds out, as a woman, the other police officers, the men, are not eager to work with her.She is sent back and further between various departments, as the men play around ... Leer más

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Carolyn Pethick joins the police academy at the age of 21, having always wanted to be a police officer her whole life. She completes her training and does well, and is then assigned to the Victoria Police Station. Here she soon finds out, as a woman, the other police officers, the men, are not eager to work with her.She is sent back and further between various departments, as the men play around
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Fighting Time

de Amy Banks, Isaac Knapper ...

Narrado por Beresford Bennett, Christina Moore ...

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8 hora 27 minutos

Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision on the evening of April 29, 1979, to walk several blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inchesfrom the safety of their hotel, they were accosted by two young men—a scuffle ensued, a shot was fired, and Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time is ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision on the evening of April 29, 1979, to walk several blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inchesfrom the safety of their hotel, they were accosted by two young men—a scuffle ensued, a shot was fired, and Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time is
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The Affirmative Action Puzzle

A Living History from Reconstruction to Today

de Melvin I. Urofsky ...

Narrado por Dan Woren ...

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21 hora 36 minutos

A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous timesFrom acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis (“Remarkable” —Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, “Definitive”—Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court (“Riveting”—Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history ... Leer más

$30.99 USD

A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous timesFrom acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis (“Remarkable” —Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, “Definitive”—Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court (“Riveting”—Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history
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The Diversity Principle

The Story of a Transformative Idea

de David B. Oppenheimer ...

Narrado por David B. Oppenheimer, Adenrele Ojo ...

Series series Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference
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13 hora 37 minutos

As government offices, corporations, and campuses dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs amid intensifying political backlash, a new book from Yale University Press argues that public debate has lost sight of DEI’s origins.In The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea, Berkeley Law Professor David B. Oppenheimer reconstructs the two-century history of diversity ... Leer más

$26.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

As government offices, corporations, and campuses dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs amid intensifying political backlash, a new book from Yale University Press argues that public debate has lost sight of DEI’s origins.In The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea, Berkeley Law Professor David B. Oppenheimer reconstructs the two-century history of diversity
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Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free

And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System

de Jed S. Rakoff ...

Narrado por Joe Barrett ...

Completo

5 hora 5 minutos

How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty? How can we claim that justice is equal when we imprison thousands of poor Black men for relatively modest crimes but rarely prosecute rich white executives who commit crimes having far greater impact? How can we applaud the Supreme Court's ever-more-limited view of its duty to combat excesses by the ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty? How can we claim that justice is equal when we imprison thousands of poor Black men for relatively modest crimes but rarely prosecute rich white executives who commit crimes having far greater impact? How can we applaud the Supreme Court's ever-more-limited view of its duty to combat excesses by the
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La gâchette facile

de Hassan Ben Mahomed ...

Narrado por Isidore Amos ...

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6 hora 54 minutos

A 17 ans, lors d un banal contrôle de police, Lahouari Ben Mohamed est assassiné à bout portant par l un des agents. « - « Monsieur, nous avons des hommes à nous à la prison des Baumettes où est incarcéré l assassin de votre fils. Si vous le souhaitez, monsieur, ce soir il est mort. Nous vous rendrons justice. - « Non, je ne veux pas. La Justice fera son travail. » Verdict : 10 mois d ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

A 17 ans, lors d un banal contrôle de police, Lahouari Ben Mohamed est assassiné à bout portant par l un des agents. « - « Monsieur, nous avons des hommes à nous à la prison des Baumettes où est incarcéré l assassin de votre fils. Si vous le souhaitez, monsieur, ce soir il est mort. Nous vous rendrons justice. - « Non, je ne veux pas. La Justice fera son travail. » Verdict : 10 mois d
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