{"id":5737,"date":"2013-03-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/freedom-rider-receives-apology-from-alabama-police-chief\/"},"modified":"2013-03-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T04:00:00","slug":"freedom-rider-receives-apology-from-alabama-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/freedom-rider-receives-apology-from-alabama-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Freedom Rider’ receives apology from Alabama police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\"-\n

It is never too late to make things right.\u00a0 Over 50 years after the ‘Freedom Riders’ were badly beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, the current police chief offered a heartfelt apology.<\/p>\n

The ‘Freedom Riders’ were a group of black and white civil rights activists who road buses together into the Southern United States in 1961.\u00a0 What was the crime?\u00a0 Believe it or not, blacks and whites were not allowed to occupy the same bus in the South.\u00a0 When the ‘Freedom Riders<\/a>‘ arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, the police looked the other way while mobs attacked and beat the passengers.\u00a0 Although incredibly dangerous, the heroic efforts of the ‘Freedom Riders<\/a>‘ paved the way for the enforcement of laws to prevent segregation.<\/p>\n

During the recent 13th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama, current police chief, Kevin Murphy, spoke at the First Baptist Church.\u00a0 He apologized for the police department who “enforced unjust laws” in failing to protect the ‘Freedom Riders’ in 1961.\u00a0 In a moving gesture, he offered his police badge to Georgia congressman John Lewis, who was one of the original ‘Freedom Riders’ who was assaulted decades ago.<\/p>\n

“It means a great deal,” Lewis stated. “I teared up. I tried to keep from crying.”<\/p>\n

“For me, freedom and the right to live in peace is a cornerstone of our society and that was something that Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Congressman Lewis were trying to achieve” Murphy said. “I think what I did today should have been done a longtime ago. It needed to be done. It needed to be spoken because we have to live with the truth and it is the truth.”<\/p>\n

In closing, the police chief stated, “We’re going to move forward as one Montgomery, one MPD. And we’re going to continue to work at it. There’s still a lot of work to do, we know that. We, the police department, needs to make the first move to build that trust back in our community that was once lost because we enforced unjust laws.”<\/p>\n

And that’s what’s good,
Jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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