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There’s no record of Washington calling him a “one man army” and the claim that he killed eleven British soldiers at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse seems as unlikely as the one about the 1,100 pound cannon, but Francisco’s documented history is impressive. If I was writing this miniseries, I’d have him take a Zweihänder off a dead Hessian. That’s a lot more probable than a general commissioning a special sword for a poor private and leaving nothing in the records about it.

I’m impressed he got several Black officers to talk about how DeSota may be making their jobs harder.

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“‘You can tell a lot about a man by the way dogs react to him,’ the department’s social media channels posted in October of last year. ‘For instance, if the police K9 is biting him, he may not be the right one.’

The posts returned to the theme in January.

‘Just know that if you send us on a foot chase in this snow storm, our four-legged fur rockets will gladly take you down in the snow to play,’ the department posted.

The violent use of dogs evokes the brutality directed at Black people by slave catchers and by police during the Civil Rights Movement. Jokes about it are beyond tone-deaf, Cheeley said.

The Assembly spoke to several Black Greensboro police officers this month, from the patrol level to command. They asked not to be identified so that they could discuss the social media posts candidly while the internal review is ongoing.

‘I will say the person making these posts uses a lot of African American vernacular for a white guy,’ one Black patrol officer said. ‘And he’s doing it while joking about things that a white guy is not going to joke about in front of Black people, is how I would put it. A white guy making these jokes about the community, about people who we are policing, is not a good look.’”

And:

“The officer described feeling sick when reading the posts referencing police dogs.

‘We’re going to be in a situation out there and K-9s are going to be involved,’ the officer said. ‘And someone’s going to get hurt. And there’s going to be an investigation. And there’s going to be a lawsuit. And tweets and jokes about this are not going to help in court.’”