by Laurence Hammack | Aug 13, 1990 | Race relations
By Laurence Hammack, Mike Hudson and Ron Brown Roanoke Police Chief M. David Hooper, whose department has fewer black police officers than any major city in Virginia, isn’t sure why he doesn’t receive more black applicants for police jobs. “Ask the...
by Laurence Hammack | Aug 12, 1990 | Race relations
In August of 1982, a summer of tension between Roanoke police and black citizens boiled over when an off-duty officer shot a black shoplifter. The Roanoke NAACP accused police of using excessive force and called for a federal investigation that eventually cleared the...
by Laurence Hammack | Apr 26, 1990 | Courts/legal issues
Ted Delinois, an enterprising young man from New York, went into the cocaine business two years ago with just a few rocks of crack and a bus ticket to Roanoke. He found such a lucrative market for the potent drug that he returned to Roanoke regularly – bringing...