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[St. Tammany Parish] Sheriff's remarks called 'overtly racist'; Strain says he's just trying to find suspects
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jul 08, 2006 11:30am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Saturday, July 8, 2006 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain's statements about the suspects in a recent quadruple murder near Slidell amount to racial profiling that broadly paints Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans as "thugs" and "trash," the American Civil Liberties Union said in an open letter to the sheriff.
Strain countered that the ACLU is distorting his comments, which he said were intended to warn St. Tammany residents about early signs of post-Katrina "spillover crime" from New Orleans.
The dispute centers on a TV interview Strain gave after four people were shot June 27 near Slidell, allegedly in a botched drug deal in which the two suspects were identified as young black men, one with dreadlocks and one with a "chee wee" hairstyle.
In an interview broadcast on WDSU-TV, Strain said, "I don't want to get into calling people names, but if you're going to walk the streets of St. Tammany Parish with dreadlocks and chee wee hairstyles, then you can expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff's deputy."
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