Black Mayor Goes to War With Top Cop in Former ‘Klantown U.S.A.’

Dec 25 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and City of Bogalusa/Facebook

In 2016, Fate Ferrell stood at the microphone in front of the Bogalusa, Louisiana, city council on the eve of the appointment of a new police chief.

The room was boiling over as residents urged council members not to confirm a longtime officer named Kendall Bullen to the top job. One of the primary grievances: that Bullen had allegedly committed an act of police brutality about 15 years earlier by...

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