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- <title>
- Apr. 01, 1991: Writing On The Wall
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 01, 1991 Law And Disorder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 21
- Writing on the Wall
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Two years before the videotaped beating of Rodney King,
- television viewers were shocked by footage of a white patrolman
- in Long Beach, Calif., apparently ramming a black man's head
- through a plate-glass window. The victim was Don Carlos
- Jackson, who has devoted himself to exposing police racism
- since he himself retired from the police force of Hawthorne,
- Calif., in 1989.
- </p>
- <p> Jackson has assembled a collection of bigoted materials he
- has found in police departments. Among them: an "Official
- Running Nigger Target," depicting a grossly caricatured nude
- black male, posted in a station house in Glendale, Calif.; and
- a memorandum he found in Los Angeles reading, "Effective
- immediately, Negroes are no longer to be called `niggers' or
- `jigs'--but seagulls. They cruise all night, squawk all day,
- s---on everybody. And are protected by the Federal Government."
- </p>
- <p> Jackson argues that for many officers, "the definition of
- a criminal suspect is almost synonymous with a black male
- face." Most departments have rules forbidding the display of
- racist materials. All too often those regulations are ignored.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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