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A Confused Inquiry

Date: August 22, 2002
Author: Bob Herbert
QUOTE: ...Local authorities rounded up more than 10 percent of the town's black population. The arrests were the culmination of an absurd one-man "investigation"...

ABSTRACT: The U.S. Justice Department says that it will continue to investigate a drug sting in a Texas town that resulted in the arrest of over ten percent of the town’s black population. The arrests were the result of questionable police work by narcotics agent Tom Coleman. A New York senator has said of the incident, “It looks…like deliberate racial profiling, arresting and prosecuting with trumped-up evidence. Officer Coleman's `investigation' is more reminiscent of the Old South of 1962 than the New South of 2002."
--- Emily Beck

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