When St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter was growing up, he thought being a police officer was like being a superhero. His father was one of St. Paul's first African Americans on the police force.
When St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter was growing up, he thought being a police officer was like being a superhero.
It may have been an unlikely point of view for a black boy growing up in a big city, but Carter had a good reason -- his father was one of St. Paul's first African Americans on the police force."He became a police officer in the early '70s after a lawsuit required the desegregation of the St. Paul police department. And so he was a part of a class of African American officers who came in and they have stories that weren't always complimentary," Carter recalled.
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