{"title":"Randi Boyette","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"let-it-burn-move-the-philadelphia-police-department-and-the-confrontation-that-changed-a-city-paperback","title":"Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants' headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner weighs his options and decides on a new plan. He will bomb the house. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet It Burn\u003c\/em\u003e is the true-life story of the confrontation between the Philadelphia Police Department and the MOVE organization-a group that rejected modern technology and fought for what it called \"natural law.\" The police commissioner's decision to drop an \"explosive device\" onto the house's roof-and then to let the resulting fire burn while adults and children remained in the house-was the final tragic chapter in a decades-long series of clashes that had already left one policeman dead and others injured, dozens of MOVE members behind bars, and their original compound razed to the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time the fire burned itself out, eleven MOVE members, many of them women and small children, would be dead. Sixty-one houses in the neighborhood would be destroyed. There would be a city inquiry, numerous civil suits, and two grand-jury inquests following the confrontation. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367730774239,"sku":"9781937868321","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KnjOTlMqKT9781937868321.webp?v=1789113391"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/randi-boyette.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}