Police Shooting of Mother and Infant Exposes a City’s Racial Tension

January 30th, 2008 Uncategorized

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It’s like a trip down memory lane, only it’s not a good time had by all. The year is not 1968, it’s 2008. It’s not Montgomery Alabama, it’s Lima, Ohio. Other than that the scenario is frighteningly similar.

“Black people in Lima, from the poorest citizens to religious and business leaders, complain that rogue police officers regularly stop them without cause, point guns in their faces, curse them and physically abuse them. They say the shooting of (Tarika) Wilson is only the latest example of a long-running pattern of a few white police officers treating African-Americans as people to be feared.”
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