William J. Bratton Quotes
Corruption, Racisim, Brutality. You cannot break the law to enforce the law under any circumstances.
William J. Bratton, Police Commissioner, New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles, Speech to Los Angeles Police Officers, February 2003, Quoted on CBS 60 Minutes, February 23, 2003
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He was assassinated for his anti-apartheid views and speeches. Most clerics of the Dutch Reformed Church had traditionally supported the Afrikaner colonial view of Black inferiority and apartheid. Heyns was an exception and he was named by Nelson Mandela as a “martyr of his country.”
Turner exposed many of the illegal activities of the FBI including “black bag jobs,” warrantless searches, bugs and wiretaps and criticized the FBI for avoiding investigations of organized crime. He had personally been directed to engage in these activities. When he went public, he was fired but no one has denied the specifics of the illegal activities he reported in his books and articles.
Qutb was studying at Greeley College and with some Egyptian friends want to a movie theater. Greeley, even though not in the South, practiced racial discrimination in many of their public accommodations and the Civil Rights Law would not be passed for another 15 years or so. The ticked clerk at first would not sell tickets to the dark skinned Egyptians and when one protested, the owner was called. He ruled that as long as they were not American Blacks, they could enter. But Qutb refused.
Speaking in the Senate about the Omnibus Crime Bill under consideration:
William Joseph Bratton CBE is an American law enforcement officer and businessman who served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner (1994–1996 and 2014–2016). He previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009). He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States' two largest cities – New York and Los Angeles.
