Black people would be harmed by racist Black individuals again and again in the twentieth century. In the 1960s, the diversifying of America’s police forces was presented as a solution to the scourge of police brutality against Black victims. The fruit of decades of activism, a new crop of Black officers were expected to treat Black citizens better than their White counterparts did. But reports immediately surfaced in the 1960s that Black officers were as abusive as White officers.
