Black Police Chief Fired For Confronting Racism In His Department
August 9, 2015 4:16 pm·
The police chief of a town in Maryland was just fired after he took huge steps at calling out and fighting racism within his department.
A crowd of supporters for the Pocomoke City chief gathered outside City Hall last week. They were demanding that their community’s first African American police chief be hired back.
Protesters held signs reading things like: “We Support Chief Kelvin Sewell.”
The demonstrators say that the chief was fired by the Pocomoke City Council on June 29th when he refused to fire two African American officers who had filed complaints against other officers for racist things they had
...... [ Read the rest of this story ]
No comments:
Post a Comment