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...affidavit says that during the race riots, Robertson provoked trouble by addressing a rally and yelling "White power!" Then, the affidavit continues, he provided ammunition to a gang known as the Newberry Street Boys and told them, "If I weren't a cop, I would be leading commando raids against n______ in the black neighborhoods." The ammunition that Robertson allegedly handed out was used on the night of July 21, 1969, when a car carrying a black family turned onto Newberry Street by mistake. It had got no more than a block when the driver saw a crowd...
...died, Ronnie Young sat on the stoop of his row house wearing a red Newberry Street Boys hat. A Confederate flag hangs in his yard. "They say they were race riots, but all they are doing is indicting whites," he says. "They better find out who shot the white cop, or there will be another race war." That policeman was shot three days before Allen and died two weeks after. Black leaders too want a further accounting: the unsolved shooting of another African American, an unarmed teen, sparked the 1969 riots...
...victim or that newly resurgent figure, the maid/nanny. (A rare exception was Esai Morales, recently added to NYPD Blue as Lieutenant Tony Rodriguez.) In the Latino actors' community, the scarcity of roles makes casting "like throwing meat to hungry dogs," says Lisa Vidal, who co-stars as a cop on Lifetime's police drama The Division. "Most of us don't want to play only the victim or the accused roles, but we have to pay the rent...
...help distinguish them. Light-skinned Hispanic actors can end up like Jewish actors have--relegated to playing other ethnicities. Arguably the most visibly Latino character announced last week was campy superhero Bat Manuel (Nestor Carbonell) on Fox's The Tick. On NBC's UC: Undercover, Jon Seda plays a cop named Jake Shaw; on NBC's Crossing Jordan, Miguel Ferrer is Dr. Garrett Macy...
...Spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete of the National Council of La Raza, which makes these distinctions every year when it gives out its ALMA awards in film, TV and music, says the answer is not cut and dried. (The group once even recognized non-Latino Nicholas Turturro for playing a Latino cop on NYPD Blue.) "We want [Hispanic] actors to be able to play Shakespeare and the whole gamut of roles," she says. "But we're also concerned about kids' self-esteem and self-image when they don't see themselves...