For many in the black community, the district attorney going after Bozeman and Wilder was nothing but retribution “for trying to make democracy work.” The sheriff disagreed vigorously. There was no need for what Wilder and Bozeman did. Blacks had it good in Pickens County. “We have a policy of not beating ’em,” he bragged. “We treat ’em right. We don’t run over ’em just because they are black.”
