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Samuel Battle, a son of enslaved people, joined the NYPD in 1911 and patrolled mostly in Harlem. He worked through taunts from fellow officers — and tourists who traveled uptown to gawk at the city’s lone Black cop — to get promoted to lieutenant. https://t.co/2qyJa1enRp — PolitiTweet.org
