COLUMBIA — A letter from the NAACP is the latest voice in the community debate about the actions of Columbia police resource officer Mark Brotemarkle at Hickman High School.
Mary Ratliff, president of both the Columbia unit and the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sent a letter to the Columbia Police Department, Columbia Public Schools and the U.S. Department of Justice after three complaints lodged against Brotemarkle were determined unfounded in an internal police department investigation.
NAACP responds to Brotemarkle incident at Hickman High
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 4:05 p.m. CST;
updated 6:48 a.m. CST, Thursday, December 11, 2008
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