Investigators tracking down who sent the letter to Police Chief Patrice Andrews.
Investigators are probing who sent a “threatening letter” that contained racial slurs and a white powder, which ultimately was tested as not harmful, to Durham Police Chief Patrice Andrews.
This startling episode comes on the heels of the controversy surrounding Chief Andrews’s now-deleted Facebook post several weeks ago criticizing racist statements attributed to assassinated conservative Turning Point USA leader and activist Charlie Kirk about accomplished Black women, like herself, “not having the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.”
After his death, many of Kirk’s previous divisive remarks on his various podcasts and videos became better known, especially his negative views about black women (“If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I don’t—I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?”); Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (“MLK was awful. He’s not a good person”); and the 1964 Civil Rights Act (“We” created a beast, and that beast has now turned into an anti-white weapon”)…