BAXTER SMITH, Community Times
- The head of the Baltimore County NAACP suggested that the recent strangulation death of a black man in a jail cell in Prince George’s County is the kind of incident that sends shudders through civil rights leaders, and reminds them of the often tenuous relationship between law enforcement and minority communities.
Patricia C. Ferguson, president of the county National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the killing “appalling” and a sign that more diversity training is needed, especially regarding encounters with African-American males.
Ferguson said that county NAACP members deplored the Prince George’s incident at their regular monthly meeting last week. A doctor attending the NAACP meeting said, according to Ferguson, that “she felt the jail cell killing meant it was open season on African-American males.”
