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...