People Vs Blutcher Author:Eliot Asinof On December 3, 1967, three white policemen in search of a routine payoff pistol-whipped and came near to killing Laurence Blutcher, a black man, in his small grocery store in Brooklyn. Blutcher was promptly charged with resisting arrest, felonious assault and violation of 'the Sabbath law'. Blutcher's subsequent struggle to wring from the syst... more »em a measure of justice is the subject of Eliot Asinof's moving book, People Vs. Blutcher.« less