People have noted that Trump used the phrase of Miami police chief, Walter Headley. What is notable is the positive coverage Headley received in newspapers throughout the country in 1967. Headlines like this were common./1 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52375391/ ">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5237...
Miami Herald Headline on the "start" of a "get tough" policy and announcing that "community relations efforts have failed." (I wonder how long and seriously those efforts had been going on.) /7 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52376802/ ">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5237...
AP story in Minneapolis Star. Headley says, "Felons will learn that they can& #39;t be bonded out from the morgue." Headline calls it a "crime war."/10 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52377400/ ">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5237...
So many headlines like this from the Logan Daily News, as if "police to crack down on Negroes" was a new thing./13 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52378915/ ">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5237...
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