Now aside from those personal perspectives, I think that this Tulia case has/was handled poorly but Herbert and a number of other writers have editorialized reporting. Herbert makes the claim no drugs were found. No drugs were found at the time these folks were rounded up. Individual sales were logged...sloppily in some cases it would appear but the claim no drugs were found is misleading. Further, this claim that it's all about purging blacks from Tulia is weak. A number of the jurors who convicted these folks were in fact black. Were they all Toms? Herbert makes no mention of this.
Rightly or wrongly, he is exploiting this as a case study in racism and you have decided to carry the torch on this for your anti-WOD stance. I share more sentiment with your perspective/cause than his but I'm not absolutely anti-WOD either.
Au contraire. They were in fact
good citizens relying of phony,
faked-up testimony from the
'arresting officer' who took notes
on his leg.
Herbert makes no mention of this.
Is it a racist case? Would
Coleman have been able to
pull this off if it were whites
involved? I guess the answer
to that question has to come
from whether you think
race is a factor in what
people are predisposed
to believe.