Clinton's close friend and fundraiser Sheriff Harry Lee: Racist to the core.
The late Harry Lee hosted a private fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in May, 2007. Hillary Clinton was in attendance at the fundraiser.
Both Clintons are longtime friends of Sheriff Lee.
Clinton Accepts Aid From a Divisive Figure (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20commence.html?fta=y
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/local_and_state_officials_pay.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lee_%28sheriff%29
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Quotes from former Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee:
"If there are some young blacks driving a car late at night in a predominantly white neighborhood, they will be stopped. There's a pretty good chance they're up to no good. It's obvious two young blacks driving a rinky-dink car in a predominantly white neighborhood -- I'm not talking about on the main thoroughfare, but if they're on one of the side streets and they're cruising around -- they'll be stopped."
"I'm going to catch that bastard, and when I catch him, he is going to be black. I just don't give a damn what people think of me anymore. If that was their daughter and we weren't doing that, they would be on our ass."
When residents of an all-black neighborhood in Avondale complained about police brutality, Lee pulled all deputies from the neighborhood.
Notably, after Hurricane Katrina, Sheriff Lee sent his deputies to prevent evacuees from New Orleans from crossing the Crescent City Connection Bridge into Jefferson Parish.
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The white-flight suburbs around New Orleans are in many ways worse. During the 1980s, Jefferson Parish sheriff Harry Lee famously ordered special scrutiny for any black people traveling in white sections of the parish. "It's obvious," Lee said, "that two young blacks driving a rinky-dink car in a predominantly white neighborhood? They'll be stopped."
The New Orleans Gambit newspaper reported that 1994, “after two black men died in the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center within one week, Lee faced protests from the black community and responded by withdrawing his officers from a predominantly black neighborhood. ‘To hell with them,’ he'd said. ‘I haven't heard one word of support from one black person.’”
The Gambit also reported in April of this year that in Jefferson Parish officers were found to be using as target practice what critics referred to as “a blatantly racist caricature” of a Black male. Sheriff Lee laughed when presented with the charges. "I'm looking at this thing that people say is offensive," he says. "I've looked at it, I don't find it offensive, and I have no interest in correcting it."
These accusations of “target practice” gained force a few weeks later with the May 31 killing of 16-year-old Antoine Colbert, who was behind the wheel of a stolen pickup truck with two other teens. 110 shots were fired into the truck, killing Colbert and injuring his passengers. In response to criticism from Black ministers over the incident, Lee responded “they can kiss my ass.”
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NOBODY had to suffer in the Superdome or New Orleans Convention center.
People could have walked across the the twin Mississippi River bridges to the unflooded West Bank.
Instead Jefferson Parish Sheriffs (led by Harry lee) and Gretna PD blockaded the bridges and treated to fire upon any person attempting to cross them.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bridge-to-gretna/
