The true-crime writer looks at the deadly encounter between a young Black man and two White police officers, and how the trials that follow captivated San Diego.
Author Peter Houlahan’s new true-crime book, “Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn,” explores the story of a deadly encounter between a young Black man and two San Diego police officers in the mid ’80s. , a fellow writer sent him an old newspaper article and with it a note asking if he knew the story of a man named Sagon Penn, the San Diego Police Department and the criminal trial that captivated that city in the mid-’80s.did not.
“You can kind of sense on a story that there’s got to be a lot more layers to it. Then you just start digging, and it was pretty clear pretty fast.” Q: You grew up in Southern California and had vivid memories of the bank robbery you wrote about in ‘Norco ’80.’ Were you also familiar with this one?When I started the book, I knew nothing about it — and I was a complete news junkie. And, at the time, I went to UC San Diego. I was there from ’79 to ’84, so I left right before this. I probably saw it in the L.A. Times but it did not stick with me.
But there’s a point when I start talking to people who have different levels of involvement. I started talking to a lot of the witnesses. Some of the guys who were riding in the truck. Some of the police officers. Donovan Jacobs did not speak with me. Again, I get it. He certainly was aware of it. I contacted him in many different ways.
Q: It was interesting to see how the leadership of the San Diego Police Department at the time was trying to be more progressive and improve relations between the department and minority communities. And then this happened.The city as a whole is really a character in this. It is a unique place, the fact that they were so willfully naive — so ‘We are not L.A.’ But leading up to that, they had the first and biggest mass shooting ,.
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