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Renault Robinson and the struggle to end police brutality

Renault Robinson and the struggle to end police brutality
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As Black leaders pushed for 'community control of police' 50 years ago, one activist cop was assigned to patrol an alley

Spring of 1973 was a busy season for Renault Robinson, who spoke at a conference on “Community Control of Police” and, not incidentally, walked a beat in the alley behind Chicago’s police headquarters in the South Loop. “This is retaliation,” Robinson told a Tribune reporter about his assignment. “No one had this job before me.” Robinson, who headed the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, had . ....

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