DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE A Story of Racial Injustice and Murder

Softcover. On Christmas Day, 1987, a black man named Loyal Garner, Jr., drove down the wrong road in Hemphill, Texas and was pulled over by a white police chief. He was taken to jail, beaten unconscious, and hospitalised. The police chief called it "a good East Texas ass-whipping." The next of kin called it murder. The author, an award-winning journalist, tells the profoundly disturbing story of the ensuing investigation. It is a story not only of one man's murder, but of the poisoned heart of American racial injustice. Illus. epilogue + List of Characters. 316pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.