The death of Eric Garner is a good place to start if you want to tell a story about our politically divided country. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. November 2, 2017.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title I Can't Breathe Subtitle A Killing on Bay Street Author Matt Taibbi

I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street - Penguin Random House.

' 'I Can't Breathe' is clear-eyed, hard-hitting account of Eric Garner's death'.

^ a b Al-Shawaf, Rayyan (December 4, 2017).

'If you're a black man, expect police brutality under U.S. ' 'I Can't Breathe': Eric Garner's Life and Death'.

^ a b Smith, Jamil (November 17, 2017).

'Matt Taibbi: The case of Eric Garner proves that broken windows policing is broken'. ' 'I Can't Breathe' Examines Modern Policing And The Life And Death Of Eric Garner'. ^ a b Gross, Terry (October 23, 2017).Rayyan Al-Shawaf wrote in The Christian Science Monitor that the book is 'clear-eyed, hard-hitting' and that it 'remains a shattering account of a little big man against whom cops used lethal force for no good reason.' Al-Shawaf praised the book's linkage to the issues regarding treatment of released prisoners, and he criticized the book's linkage to other racial abuse and police brutality issues but that the issue should not 'discredit' the entire work. Paul Butler of The Washington Post compared the book to The Wire and stated that its atmosphere is like a 'police procedural'. Jamil Smith of The New York Times praised the coverage of systemic racism and the detail of the human players, and described the book as having 'deep reporting' he concluded the book is 'an able introduction'. According to Taibbi, the death itself 'and the great distances that were traveled to protect his killer, now stand as testaments to America's pathological desire to avoid equal treatment under the law for its black population.' Taibbi wrote that the death 'had to be told without my voice, without linguistic cartwheels or jokes or any of the other circus tricks I learned to use.' Reception The book describes law enforcement procedures, systemic issues, and the individual life of Garner, as well as his death, and the influence on Black Lives Matter.

I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street is a 2017 book by Matt Taibbi, published by Spiegel & Grau, about the killing of Eric Garner.

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