Race relations and Hermosa Beach police
Re “City Settles Lawsuit Alleging Racism,” Dec. 23
I was very disappointed to read about possible racism against blacks from the Hermosa Beach Police Department. I grew up during the ‘80s in Hermosa Beach, and my family was the only black family on our block. My sisters and I were the only blacks in our schools for a long time. As a child I never once thought about my skin color as being different from my white childhood friends.
It wasn’t until I became a teenager and moved out of Hermosa Beach that I realized that difference between blacks and whites.
I still consider Hermosa Beach my hometown, but I am ashamed of the behavior demonstrated toward blacks and other minorities at the hands of the Police Department.
JASMYNE A. CANNICK
Los Angeles
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