Read The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide Online
Authors: Dick Lehr
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Political Science, #Social Science, #Law Enforcement, #True Crime, #Criminology, #Ethnic Studies, #African Americans, #Police Misconduct, #African American Studies, #Police Brutality, #Boston (Mass.), #Discrimination & Race Relations, #African American Police
The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide (32 page)
Smut Brown in elementary school in Roxbury.
Kenny Conley celebrates his graduation from the police academy on June 19, 1991. With him are his mother, Maureen, and his father, Ken.
Besides starring on the varsity football and basketball teams, Mike Cox (second from left) was a resident adviser in his dormitory. Pictured with Mike is one of his best friends from high school, Vincent Johnson (third from right).
Smut Brown and a friend in the mid-1990s.
The night of the beating began with a police stakeout of Hip-Hop Night at the Cortee’s, a night spot popular with the street gangs.
The shooting of Lyle Jackson at Walaikum’s at 2:00 a.m. triggered the police chase that ended in the beating of Mike Cox.
The damaged Lexus used by the shooting suspects to flee police at the dead end of Woodruff Way in Mattapan. The police vehicle next to it was occupied by officers Dave Williams and Jimmy Burgio.
District Attorney Ralph Martin, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (left), and Police Commissioner Paul Evans (right) at a press conference.
Bobby Dwan was Kenny Conley’s partner the night of the Cox beating.
Kenny Conley, suspended from the police force, appeals his 1998 federal conviction of perjury and obstruction of justice.
Dave Williams. He was Burgio’s partner the night of the Cox beating.
Jimmy Burgio.
Mike Cox in the days before his civil rights trial.
