This American Life explores troubling story of ex-Muskegon cop who displayed racist document at home – Detroit Metro Times
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- Via Rob Mathis’ Facebook web page
- A mounted Ku Klux Klan application was left shown in your home of a white Michigan policeman while a Black male existed with a property representative.
Public radio’s This American Life released a thorough, two-part collection over the weekend break regarding the white Muskegon police that came under attack for showing KKK souvenirs in his residence.
The once a week podcast looked into the dispute as well as the unpleasant job of Charles Anderson, that was at some point discharged in September 2019.
Everything started in August 2019 when a Black pair visiting Anderson’s house, which was available, found Confederate flags and also a mounted Ku Klux Klan record on display screen. The possible buyer Rob Mathis published on Facebook what he had actually uncovered at the residence, bring about severe concerns concerning the police officer.
Lots of individuals, most of them Black, stepped forward to report troubling previous experiences with the police officer. It was additionally exposed that Anderson showed a Confederate flag on his vehicle after Barack Obama was chosen head of state in November 2008.
The collection, called “A Couple Walks Into a House,” consists of meetings with individuals that had confrontations with Anderson. Among them is a priest at a little church that worked with a workplace furnishings production line. When Anderson barged in over a sound problem, he was at a birthday celebration for his 59-year-old mommy. Anderson pepper-sprayed relative and also jailed the priest for attack, a fee that was later on gone down, yet not prior to he shed his work.
In spite of a pattern of violent habits by Anderson, city authorities initially agreed the police and also not did anything.
The collection discovers what took place over the following couple of months as even more unpleasant information were exposed regarding Anderson.
Component 2 in the collection broadcasts following weekend break.
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It all started in August 2019 when a Black pair exploring Anderson’s residence, which was for sale, found Confederate flags as well as a mounted Ku Klux Klan paper on display screen. The collection, called “A Couple Walks Into a House,” consists of meetings with individuals that had altercations with Anderson. He was at a birthday celebration for his 59-year-old mom when Anderson barged in over a sound problem.
