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Alex you asked about the civil rights movements in Tacoma here some history!!
This is something that me and my dad discussed. His lived in Tacoma WA his whole life and worked at the Malcolm x center and now known as Peoples community center. My parents still reside on the hilltop and my dad still works at the peoples community center. He has told me many stories about how he was apart of the black panthers of Tacoma and how they would not let the TPD police their communities. One of the things that he discussed was the Mothers Day Riots in Tacoma's hilltop.
My dad was Tacoma Police Officer Herman Knaack. He was a great cop - didn't care about skin color. If he he found a felon, (which he did on Mother's Day 1969), he would do all he could to place your butt in jail - where it belonged. He saved his partner's life that day by taking the bullet. He never told me that. His partner, Arthur Jackson, told me several years later. I appreciate all our law enforcement men and women. Keeping us safe day after day. THANK YOU!
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