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The LA Police Commission has posthumously reinstated Robert Stewart — one of the department's first Black officers — more than 120 years after he was unjustly terminated. Born into slavery in 1850, he eventually came to LA and spent 11 years on the force.

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ameriKKKa has such a shame history and a shameful present as well.

Too little too late.

What a hollow gesture

LAPDHQ y'all need to reinstate this brave black officer wrongfully discharged as well.

expectation: repair relations with the black community reality: black ghost-cop choking people out in the streets like darth vader

American4Love

Right on

Did anyone calculate pay owed post-termination plus interest and mechanism for delivering this to living descendants? Cannot eat 'sorry'. Ok, never mind. Just a thought.

Do you understand the dark triad?

Read the article & hope this means something to his family - reinstatement 120 years later after being falsely termed. Couldn't find a more meaningful or impactful way to commemorate him... 🤷‍♀️

Cool, so is a check going to be cut to his descendants?...

I get the feeling he was NOT liked by his fellow officers.

what’s the pension on 120 years of service

People of LA: LAPD please stop beating and brutalizing black people and their communities LAPD: What if we reinstate a black cop 120 years later instead?

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