http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072003216.html"And this is what happened on a January night in 1995. A young black man had been gunned down in an eatery. A neighborhood resident dialed 911 claiming an officer had been shot: He later said it was the quickest way to get help in an inner city establishment. Four black suspects were being pursued across a 10-mile area. On a dead-end street, police believed they had cornered one of the suspects. They pummeled him before he uttered a word, using a baton, fists, and boot-laden feet. The "suspect" spurted blood, dropped to the cold ground, tried to get up, only to be beaten more. His gurgling words were unintelligible through blood and pain.
The "suspect" was actually Michael Cox, a decorated undercover police officer who had himself been in pursuit of the suspects, had even been in the lead chase vehicle. And who happened to be black.
At least two and possibly three officers participated in Cox's beating. More than two dozen officers would eventually arrive at the scene, some who held supervisory positions. But in the follow-up investigation, no officer took responsibility for the beating. Cox survived.
"The Boston police department chewed up one of its own and spit him out," says Dick Lehr, author of the recently published "The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide." Lehr spent four years unraveling the saga which exposed anew the concern of black police officers working undercover. In New York City seven weeks ago, Omar Edwards, an off-duty black officer, was shot dead by a white officer who mistook him for a criminal suspect."
Enter Dave Chappelle's skit: sprinkle crack on him.
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