Capitol Hill Police Officer: "I hope somebody assasinates Mandela"

[rman]

video, article:

GNN
The Last Plantation
Capitol Hill Police Officers Speak Out
01 Aug 2006
McKinney-Capitol Police incident part of systemic racism of Capitol Police force says African American officers
Capitol Hill is ‘Last Plantation’ according to officers
http://gnn.tv/videos/63/The_Last_Plantation

..."They don't respect our black leaders when they come to the Hill. I think that Mandela had just been released. And Mandela was being honored in the Cannon Building and we had a ceremony prepared for him. And they were assigning officers to work the ceremony and the guys were on a break. And we heard a white officer say: "I hope somebody assasinates him." And i mean, you could see the clash about to take place in that locker room, white officers against black officers. And that's just how bad it is.
It's been unbearable. The bottom line is, that's why the black officers brought the class action lawsuit.

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Another officer in the video recalls white U.S. Capitol Officers actually preparing to confront African American Members of Congress.

'I’ve heard them say, "Well when certain members come through here, in particular Cynthia McKinney, she ain’t just gonna run up these steps. I’m gonna stop her," said the officer. 'It’s almost like they be waiting … want confrontation.'

The McKinney incident was just the latest in a long line of questionable situations and occurrences that are part of what the officers call the “good old boy system” in the Capitol Police Force. They term the Capitol the “last plantation”.

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