Vicksburg NAACP leader claims police targets blacks; chief says no way

Statistics on traffic citations issued by Vicksburg police officers during 2015 indicates the police department is targeting blacks in the city, the president of the Warren County NAACP claims.

Police Chief Walter Armstrong said the complaint is unfounded.

“In my seven-and-a-half years working here, I have never, never, had anyone to imply that African- Americans or blacks are being targeted by Vicksburg police officers,” he said.

NAACP President John Shorter said the NAACP’s complaint “pretty much goes back to the beginning of the Laurence Leyens administration, where we were getting complaints.

“The citizens felt they were being targeted; the blacks were getting targeted with the citations, road blocks at the way into their neighborhood or at the outskirts of black neighborhoods.”

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