Word: podryhula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board voted three to two on August 10 to reinstate conditionally Natalie Podryhula, who has worked as a police dispatcher for the past three years. But in a letter on August 20 to New Haven Mayor Biagio DiLieto. Edward White Jr., president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), urged DiLieto to "use his leadership to reverse the unconscionable action of the Police Commission...
White said he believes that Podryhula "demonstrated a serious lack of control and judgment" in the incident of October 22, 1979. At about 3 a.m. on that date, Podryhula stopped a Black Yale student entering the Berkeley College gate and asked to see his identification...
...student, Randy Reeves, claimed that she had only stopped him because he was Black and also claimed that Podryhula called him a "nigger...
...racial accusation was never proven, but Podryhula was found to have behaved improperly...
Black student leaders sharply criticized Podryhula's rehiring and spokesmen for the Committee on Race Relations say they plan a "thorough investigation" of the grievance panel's findings...