It is still unclear whether they broke the law or whether they participated in the insurrection.
Still, alarm bells are going off for some people in the city.
âWhat more can we do to help understand how deep the iceberg really is here?â asked Douglas Wagoner, a member of the Community Police Commission, a citizen advisory group which discussed the matter in a Zoom meeting.
âI can t think of anything that s more problematic for trust,â he said, âespecially at this already tenuous moment, than to find out that there are potential officers potentially involved in this attempted coup.â
Another member of the group, a Black officer named Mark Mullens, talked about colleagues who ve worn MAGA hats to the precinct.
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Itâs uncommon to find five female captains serving in one police department, like Birmingham Police Department, said Lynda R. Williams, who knows a thing or two about law enforcement.Â
Williams is a retired deputy assistant director of the U.S. Secret Service and a criminal justice administration professor at her alma mater Middle Tennessee State University.
âEvery time we do something (with) statistical data, we see (female promotions to command positions) more often but it’s still a great challenge,â said Williams. âI think some of it has changed, just the culture that we’re in. It’s not as great an anomaly as it once was but to have five women in command in Birmingham, yeah, that’s still a major event.â
The FBI has a long history of fulfilling the function of white supremacy in the United States. While the Tulsa Massacre was ongoing, the FBI’s predecessor was busy investigating Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association. The FBI’s first director, J Edgar Hoover, waged war on the civil rights movement from its onset. The war was ramped up in the age of Cointelpro, an FBI program designed to surveil, dismantle and destroy any movement working to end racism or capitalist exploitation in the United States. The FBI occasionally investigated white supremacists during this era (1956 to 1971),but spent the vast majority of its resources fighting those committed to Black and Indigenous liberation. And many of the bureau’s investigations of white supremacists were disingenuous; the FBI knew for a fact that the Birmingham police Department had been infiltrated by the KKK, for example, but continued to feed the department information about civil rights activists. During
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Kimberly Kindy, Mark Berman and Kim Bellware, The Washington Post
Jan. 24, 2021
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