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9. The Unlikely Alliance - A Black Police Officer Helps Protect The KKK

Kkk Black Police Officer
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Here is a black policeman standing in front of a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Austin, Texas, in 1983.

Crowds were forcing their way towards the white-supremacist demonstrators when the police - including some of African-American origin - halted them.

Quite amazing to see a black man protect a racist group who want his civil rights taken away from him, isn't it?

 
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