Nov 17, 2018
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. | New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. | New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— Veteran Alabama law enforcement officer Mark Pettway grew up in a black neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s.
Now, after becoming the first black person elected sheriff in Birmingham — on the same day voters elected the community’s first black district attorney — Pettway sees himself as part of a new wave…
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