After issuing a public apology last week, Robert Powell has resigned from his position with the Dallas Police Department. The announcement was made just before noon on Wednesday.
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Dallas Cop Who Kept NFL’s Ryan Moats From Dying Kin RESIGNS
April 3, 2009Dallas police: Officer drew gun during traffic stop of NFL player
March 26, 2009The Dallas Police Department confirmed Thursday that an officer drew a gun on NFL running back Ryan Moats and his wife after he stopped them to give them a ticket even as they begged to hurry to the bedside of their dying mother.
Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists’ cash
March 11, 2009If you’re black, you might want to think twice before driving through the small town of Tenaha, Texas, where local police allegedly seize cash and other property from African Americans without ever charging them with any crime.
House poised to apologize for slavery, Jim Crow
July 29, 2008DeaconDavid’s comment: As the world continues to change, I applaud this step in the right direction. We know this will not right all of the wrongs that have taken place, but it is positive movement.
The House of Representatives was poised Tuesday to pass a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow.
Don Imus says it was ‘sarcastic point’ not racist remark
June 24, 2008My comment: I know Don Imus is taking a lot of heat about this, but I can actually see his point on this one. We know that African-American men don’t always get fair treatment by the men in blue, so I can understand him saying sarcastically that Pacman is getting arrested because the police have a bias against him already.
Don Imus, responding to criticism about racial remarks on his radio program, said on the air Tuesday he was trying to “make a sarcastic point” about unfair treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system but had been misunderstood.
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