The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial DivideThe Boston police officers who brutally beat Michael Cox at a deserted fence one icy night in 1995 knew soon after that they had made a terrible mistake. The badge and handgun under Cox's bloodied parka proved he was not a black gang member but a plainclothes cop chasing the same murder suspect his assailants were. Officer Kenny Conley, who pursued and apprehended the suspect while Cox was being beaten, was then wrongfully convicted by federal prosecutors of lying when he denied witnessing the attack on his brother officer. Both Cox and Conley were native Bostonians, each dedicating his life to service with the Boston Police Department. But when they needed its support, they were heartlessly and ruthlessly abandoned. A remarkable work of investigative journalism, Dick Lehr's The Fence tells the shocking true story of the attack and its aftermath—and exposes the lies and injustice hidden behind a "blue wall of silence." -- Provided by publisher. |
Contents
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Kenny Conley | 45 |
The Troubled Boston PD | 64 |
Mikes Early Police Career | 78 |
Closing Time at the Cortees | 93 |
The Murder and the Chase | 102 |
No Official Complaint | 158 |
Can I Talk to My Lawyer? | 176 |
Dave I Know You Know Something | 197 |
Cox v Boston Police Department | 213 |
ParT Three JUsTIce denIed Then The TrIal 14 The White Guy at the Fence | 227 |
The Perjury Trap | 248 |
Acknowledgments | 331 |
Notes | 337 |
The Dead End | 123 |
ParT Two TrUe blUe 9 8Boy | 139 |
Court Cases | 361 |
Index | 369 |
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