Cowboys and Indians

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"When J.J. Harper of the Island Lake Tribal Council was fatally shot on a wintry Winnipeg street in 1988, the city police department was quick to absolve the officer involved from all blame. Less than a day after the shooting, Police Chief Herb Stephen announced that Harper had died during a struggle for Constable Robert Cross's gun. But the truth was not so cut and dried. Far from closing the case, Stephen's remarks were just the start of this dramatic tale of sex, death, threats, flimsy charges, and a police force so out of control that a prominent lawyer, a senior Crown attorney, and a respected journalist all had reason to suspect they were being watched by the police. Pursued doggedly by Winnipeg Free Press columnist Gordon Sinclair Jr., the stranger-than-fiction story of the shooting of J.J. Harper points a finger at the growing disaster of race relations and policing in Canada's inner cities."--Pub. desc.

subjects: Autochtones,  Civil rights,  Corruption policière,  Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale,  Discrimination in criminal justice administration,  Enquêtes publiques,  Governmental investigations,  Homicide investigation,  Indians of North America,  Police corruption,  Police shootings,  Procès (Meurtre),  Race relations,  Relations raciales,  Trials (Murder),  Native peoples,  Murder, canada,  Winnipeg (man.), history,  Canada, social conditions,  Indigenous peoples,  Discrimination in justice administration,  Canada, ethnic relations

People: John Joseph Harper (1951-1988)

Places: Manitoba,  Winnipeg,  Winnipeg (Man.)