Coard: Superintendent Johnson is a Black face on white supremacy

Michael Coard
Feb 22, 2019

Although Jussie’s alleged lies are indefensible, I — as a Black person who’s painfully aware of America’s past and present — refuse to condemn any race-related symptom without first condemning the race-related disease. Jussie, like a cancerous lesion destroying the body, destroyed the credibility of the Black community to a certain extent.......Throughout his ( Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson ) entire supervisory tenure, he has never held a press conference castigating any law enforcement officer for anything, including the following:
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1. He ignored the fact that the Department of Justice in 2017 issued a report stating that the Chicago police “have violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, permitting racial bias against Blacks, using excessive force, and shooting people who did not pose immediate threats.” This was, continued the Justice Department, the result of “systemic deficiencies,” including bad cops remaining unaccountable for their crimes.


2. He ignored the fact that a sergeant and at least three other cops in the department’s gang unit have been stripped, since last year of their police authority by the FBI as a result of a federal investigation involving robbery of money and drugs from criminals and law-abiding citizens. By the way, that sergeant already had 23 complaints filed against him throughout his blemished 21-year career for, among other misconduct, civil rights violations, illegal arrests, and improper use of a weapon.

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