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A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko
So I had a big story go up at The Intercept over the weekend. About 18 months of reporting.
Because it's quite long, here's a thread that I hope will persuade you to read it.
A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard
Keith Humphrey was brought in to reform a department riven by race. His opponents accused him of bias and sexual improprieties.
theintercept.com
8:36 AM · Dec 20, 2021
Radley Balko
@radleybalko
So I had a big story go up at The Intercept over the weekend. About 18 months of reporting.
Because it's quite long, here's a thread that I hope will persuade you to read it.
A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard
Keith Humphrey was brought in to reform a department riven by race. His opponents accused him of bias and sexual improprieties.
theintercept.com
8:36 AM · Dec 20, 2021
https://theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-black-police-chief-keith-humphrey/
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ON THE MORNING of May 28, 2020, a Black sergeant with the Little Rock, Arkansas, Police Department woke up, turned on the news, and saw the George Floyd video for the first time. “It was just a punch to the gut,” she said. “Or two punches, I guess. You see a video like that, and as a Black woman, it crushes you. And then you see it as a police officer, and you just feel ashamed.”
After watching the video, the sergeant, who I’ll call “Wanda,” checked her cellphone. Overnight, she had received a series of text messages from her colleagues at LRPD. The first was from then-Assistant Chief Alice Fulk, sent just before midnight. “Angie, Debbie, shorty, Linda and Marilyn,” Fulk’s text read, “it’s my understanding that u all hve heard inappropriate sexual remarks made by the chief.”
Wanda was floored. Fulk was referring to Keith Humphrey, who had become the city’s chief of police the prior year. “I had no idea what she was talking about,” Wanda said. “I never told anyone that Chief Humphrey had said anything inappropriate to me — because he hadn’t.”
As she read the replies, Wanda grew more confused. One by one, the other women agreed they would come forward with allegations. “None of them had ever mentioned anything to me about him being inappropriate,” Wanda recalled. “It seemed odd to me. Like they were recruiting.”
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