
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 3, 1991                   TAG: 9104030502
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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NAACP OFFICIALS SHOULD DON UNIFORMS

I WONDER if we could possibly get Evangeline Jeffrey and the Rev. Carl Tinsley of the NAACP to get us an investigation into the beating death of a white person, allegedly by two blacks, over the weekend of March 22? If they are so concerned about the person accused of molesting a woman, stabbing her 30 times, and stabbing a city police officer, they could help with this case.

I think Ms. Jeffrey and the Rev. Tinsley ought to don uniforms and work a couple of weeks as Roanoke city police officers. Then they wouldn't have to ask for a federal investigation; they would have it first-hand. JAMES CAMPBELL BEDFORD

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