Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
Norfolk Councilman Paul Riddick
Norfolk City Councilman Makes Racially Charged Comments on Radio Show
A Norfolk city councilman made racially charged comments on the local WHRV-FM "HearSay" program Monday. Paul Riddick's remarks stem from an undercover drug bust by Norfolk detectives that ended in a shootout outside Military Circle Mall.
Two officers and two suspects were shot - but no one was fatally injured.
Councilman Riddick claims
police chose to make the drug arrest at Military Circle because its shoppers tend to be African-American.
He went on to say during the radio talk show that police would not have done the bust at
the Palace Shoppes on 21st Street because that's where a lot of "J*ws" shop.
During the show, Riddic
k said "Military Circle Mall is a 90 percent African-American mall. They (the police) would not have done it over at the Palace Shoppes which are frequented a lot by J*ws, MacArthur Center, or down at Lynnhaven Mall."
Norfolk Police Chief Bruce Marquis recently told a Norfolk City Council session that police do not pick the time and place for drug busts. Because of the nature of undercover work, he said, those locations are determined by the suspects.
WAVY News 10 has learned the police involved in the drug bust at Military Circle Mall earlier this month were all minorities. Both the Police Chief and his boss, Norfolk&
#39;s City Manager, are African-American.
10 On Your Side went to try and interview Riddick Monday, but reporter Mary Kay Mallonee and her photographer were asked to leave.
Councilman
Riddick did issue an apology Monday night.
WAVY News 10 talked with undercover narcotics officers in several different police departments and they all say they go where t
he drug dealers are dealing.
If police were to start trying to get drug dealers to come meet the undercover officers in some other neighborhood, the drug dealers would immediately become suspicious and that would put the officers lives in even more danger.
Councilman Riddick has appeared in the headlines before -
1996 - Riddick hit a woman with a ham and paid a $200 fine.
1998 - Pled guilty to tax evasion and paid $5500 in back taxes
2003 - Appeared in an Isle Of Wight County court for failing to pay business taxes for two years
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The man don't do drug raid
s in Hymietown, yowza!
T.N.B.
Norfolk City Councilman Makes Racially Charged Comments on Radio Show
A Norfolk city councilman made racially charged comments on the local WHRV-FM "HearSay" program Monday. Paul Riddick's remarks stem from an undercover drug bust by Norfolk detectives that ended in a shootout outside Military Circle Mall.
Two officers and two suspects were shot - but no one was fatally injured.
Councilman Riddick claims
police chose to make the drug arrest at Military Circle because its shoppers tend to be African-American.
He went on to say during the radio talk show that police would not have done the bust at
the Palace Shoppes on 21st Street because that's where a lot of "J*ws" shop.
During the show, Riddic
k said "Military Circle Mall is a 90 percent African-American mall. They (the police) would not have done it over at the Palace Shoppes which are frequented a lot by J*ws, MacArthur Center, or down at Lynnhaven Mall."
Norfolk Police Chief Bruce Marquis recently told a Norfolk City Council session that police do not pick the time and place for drug busts. Because of the nature of undercover work, he said, those locations are determined by the suspects.
WAVY News 10 has learned the police involved in the drug bust at Military Circle Mall earlier this month were all minorities. Both the Police Chief and his boss, Norfolk&
#39;s City Manager, are African-American.
10 On Your Side went to try and interview Riddick Monday, but reporter Mary Kay Mallonee and her photographer were asked to leave.
Councilman
Riddick did issue an apology Monday night.
WAVY News 10 talked with undercover narcotics officers in several different police departments and they all say they go where t
he drug dealers are dealing.
If police were to start trying to get drug dealers to come meet the undercover officers in some other neighborhood, the drug dealers would immediately become suspicious and that would put the officers lives in even more danger.
Councilman Riddick has appeared in the headlines before -
1996 - Riddick hit a woman with a ham and paid a $200 fine.
1998 - Pled guilty to tax evasion and paid $5500 in back taxes
2003 - Appeared in an Isle Of Wight County court for failing to pay business taxes for two years
******************
The man don't do drug raid
s in Hymietown, yowza!
T.N.B.