That isn't to say race is missing: the victim of the beating, Michael Cox, is black, and the police had been getting into trouble for other beatings of black victims. well, maybe, but you wouldn't know it from this book. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.Ī police cover-up, yes. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1991-1992. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal, and its sequel, Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss. Lehr is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide, a non-fiction narrative about the worst known case of police brutality in Boston, which was an Edgar Award finalist for best non-fiction. Before that, Lehr, who is also an attorney, was a reporter at The Hartford Courant. He served as the Globe's legal affairs reporter, magazine and feature writer, and as a longtime member of the newspaper's investigative reporting unit, the Spotlight Team. From 1985 to 2003, he was a reporter at the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting and won numerous regional and national journalism awards. Dick Lehr is a professor of journalism at Boston University.
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