{"product_id":"standoff-race-policing-and-a-deadly-assault-that-gripped-a-nation-9781250813848","title":"Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStandoff\u003c\/i\u003e is award-winning journalist Jamie Thompson's gripping account of a deadly night in Dallas, told through the eyes of those at the center of the events, who offer a nuanced look at race and policing in America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two Black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. As officers patrolled a march in Dallas, a young man stepped out of an SUV wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a high-powered rifle. He killed five officers and wounded eleven others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt fell to a small group of cops to corner the shooter inside a community college, where a fierce gun battle was followed by a stalemate. The crisis negotiator Larry Gordon, a twenty-one-year department veteran, spent hours bonding with the gunman--over childhood ghosts and death and shared experiences of racial injustice in America--while his colleagues devised an unprecedented plan to bring the night to its dramatic end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThompson's minute-by-minute account includes intimate portrayals of the negotiator, a surgeon who operated on the fallen officers, a mother of four shot down in the street, and the SWAT officers tasked with stopping the gunman. This is a deeply affecting story of real people navigating a terrifying crisis and a city's attempts to heal its divisions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e covered the Dallas police shooting for the\u003ci\u003e Washington Post. \u003c\/i\u003eHer later account of that night for the\u003ci\u003e Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e won an Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in writing. She has been a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eD Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and an associate professor of journalism at the University of Dallas. Her work also has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eTampa Bay Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482466029842,"sku":"9781250813848","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e6e78db0-5d25-4c10-95c9-e5b7a969615d.jpg?v=1730346482","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/standoff-race-policing-and-a-deadly-assault-that-gripped-a-nation-9781250813848","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}