The phrase President Trump tweeted goes back to the Civil Rights Era. It was used by a white police chief with 'a long history of bigotry against the black community,' a scholar explains. And a segregationist politician.
"He had a long history of bigotry against the black community," said professor Clarence Lusane of Howard University.
According to Lusane, Headley may have borrowed the phrase from Eugene"Bull" Connor, who had been the notorious public safety commissioner in Birmingham, Ala., a segregationist who directed the use of police dogs and fire hoses against black demonstrators. Headley's use of the phrase is thought to have contributed to intensified race riots, including one of the most serious ones in Miami in 1980, when a black man,
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