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Galveston Police Apologize for Shocking Photo Showing Mounted Officers with Handcuffed Black Man

HeadlineAug 06, 2019

Police in Galveston, Texas, apologized following outrage over a photo showing horse-mounted officers leading a handcuffed black man down the street with a rope. The man was arrested Saturday on a misdemeanor trespassing charge. The president of the Galveston Coalition for Justice, Leon Phillips, said the officers humiliated the man and that the photo was reminiscent of racist images from the 1920s. James Douglas, the president of Houston’s NAACP, also lamented the photo, saying, “This is 2019 and not 1819.”

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