Big Trouble in Little Rock
A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard
18 December 2021
A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard
18 December 2021
1 - Backlash: 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 ...
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