Renault Robinson, who headed the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, had made a stink about five off-duty cops who beat a Black man and his companion outside a bar at 56 S. Wabash Ave. Trying to escape, the man was shot in the buttocks.
Chicago police Officer Renault Robinson on duty behind police headquarters at 11th and State streets on May 9, 1973. Robinson co-founded and became executive director of the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, which aimed to boost police relations with the Black community and to improve relations between Black and white officers and police reform. As a form of retaliation, the Police Department assigned Robinson to patrol the alley behind headquarters.
It was also beyond the pale to participate in a two-day meeting at the University of Illinois Circle Campus convened by the Black Panther Party, where comedian Dick Gregory recalled the sketchy cops of his youth in St. Louis: Chicago police Officer Renault Robinson, head of the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, takes over a meeting by shouting down the speaker with a bullhorn on June 20, 1972, in Chicago. The meeting was between Superintendent James Conlisk Jr. and the people of Englewood and Wentworth police districts at the Antioch Baptist Church.
Once Robinson became president of the fledgling Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, he made headlines and was subjected to disciplinary actions in regular succession. Renault Robinson, center, and members of the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, hold a news conference concerning the arrest of the league’s president, Howard Saffold, on Nov. 25, 1975. Sitting with Robinson are the Rev. George Clements, Saffold, Edgar Gosh and Henry Jordan.
“We the people must support Rep. Metcalfe and others,” a minister wrote. “Know it my brother! Feel it my sister! Day is breaking!”U.S. Rep. Ralph Metcalfe in Chicago police headquarters after he and Black leaders met with Superintendent James Conlisk on April 24, 1972, to discuss police harassment and abuse of Black people by police.
As she was explaining the pet wasn’t vicious, he cuffed her and muscled her down the stairs, cursing all the while and calling her a whore. Horrified neighbors verified her story. But the Police Department’s internal affairs division stamped Bauman’s complaint unfounded. One witness said she struggled with the officer, which in addition to the officer’s denials of some of the allegations was apparently enough.
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