A group of up to a dozen police officers on a specialized narcotics team were found to have planted drugs and weapons on young black men for years. They were supervised at the time by Lt. Steve Parrish, current Dothan Police Chief, and Sgt. Andy Hughes, current Asst. Director of Homeland Security for the State of Alabama. All of the officers reportedly were members of a Neoconfederate organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center labels “racial extremists.” The group has advocated for blacks to return to Africa, published that the civil rights movement is really a Jewish conspiracy, and that blacks have lower IQ’s . Both Parrish and Hughes held leadership positions in the group and are pictured above holding a confederate battle flag at one of the club’s secret meetings.
The documents shared reveal that the internal affairs investigation was covered up to protect the aforementioned officers’ law enforcement careers and keep them from being criminally prosecuted.
the cover up had been going for nearly 20 years
Beginning in early 1996, the Dothan Police Department received complaints from black victims that drugs and weapons were being planted. Specifically young black men who had clean records were targeted. Police Chief, John White, allegedly instructed senior officers to ignore the complaints and they willingly complied.
in which we can’t’t tell the law enforcement professional from a wingnut in a white supremacist militia. The sad thing is this sort of confirmation of the worst ethical breaches and abject corruptibility (in Alabama) as it relates to race isn’tshocking enough to register on a national scale
PSA course on knowing your racists. There’s several tiers of Confederate sympathizer in the south, distinguished by which flag they carry.
This is pop racism. Baseline stuff, everyone and their granny has one.
Fratboy racism, for those who are slightly more hardcore but want to dress it up with the trappings of being “classy”. Likes Gone with the Wind unironically.
“A Klansman am I”
You should already be running.
This has been a public service announcement.
The worst part is this right here: “Specifically young black men who had clean records were targeted.”
Like the implications of this are fucking staggering and if people don’t think this is the norm then I don’t know what to say. I don’t know the number of Black men in jail for being wrongly incarcerated but I’m pretty sure it’s a good amount because of shit like this.
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