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Virginia’s first black female police chief says she was forced to resign

2UrbanGirlsBy 2UrbanGirlsMarch 30, 2019Updated:March 30, 20194 Comments3 Mins Read
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The first African-American woman to serve as a police chief in Virginia wrote in a four-page letter Monday that she was forced to resign in a move she believes was racially motivated.

“I can assure you that I did not ‘quit’ on the citizens of Portsmouth. My mother did not raise me to be a quitter,” wrote the former Portsmouth police chief, Tonya Chapman. “She raised me to be a strong woman. As such, my resignation was not tendered under my own volition. This was a forced resignation and our City Manager was the conduit.”

Tonya Chapman, Police Chief

Powerful State Sen. Louise Lucas is calling on the city council to vote no confidence in City Manager Dr. Lydia Pettis-Patton over her handling of the resignation of former police chief Tonya Chapman.

Related: State Sen. Louise Lucas calls for Portsmouth City Council to vote no confidence in city manager

This is the second African-American police chief forced out of their position. Henderson, Nevada police chief Latesha Watson faced scrutiny when she called for a change in how her department handles office involved shootings.

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Like Watson, Chapman faced scrutiny for wanting to change her departments culture.

Chapman, who became chief of the city’s police force in 2016, said she met some resistance in her efforts to change a police department culture that, she said, included “bias and acts of systemic racism, discriminatory practices and abuse of authority.”

“Some quite frankly did not like taking direction from an African American female,” Chapman wrote.

These “racial tensions” within the department became “blatantly apparent” after a white officer fatally shot a black man in 2015, Chapman wrote. The officer in the incident was fired and indicted on a charge of first-degree murder, but was later found guilty of a lesser manslaughter charge.

Locally, Jacqueline Seabrooks, who is also African-American, successfully led the Inglewood and Santa Monica police departments as their chief, and was highly respected by her officers. Despite record officer involved shootings (OIS) occurring on her watch, while with IPD, she never publicly discussed “changing department culture” and/or “changing how OIS were investigated”.

Interim Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene

To save face, both Henderson and Portsmouth Police Department replaced their outgoing African-American police chiefs with another Black face. That’s code for “see we aren’t racist, we made another Black person our chief of police”. The first order of business for interim police chief Angela Greene was to proclaim “there is no racism in the Portsmouth Police Department”. Yeah right.

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  1. Anonymous on July 15, 2021 7:35 am

    Interesting…I worked for retired now Interim Chief Seabrooks and she did talk publicly about changing IPD culture and handling OIS incidents. And a lot of things changed at IPD but then I guess you wouldn’t/couldn’t give her credit for that.

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    • 2urbangirls on July 15, 2021 7:59 am

      How did we get on Seabrooks? But if we wanna talk about her, she had no choice re: OIS because I believe there were multiple incidents over a six month period. On the other hand, I believe any woman who stands up to Butts should be commended. She also promoted hard working officers, and I would have loved to see her run for Sheriff of LA County.

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  2. Mike Stevens on April 1, 2019 6:05 pm

    What a joke, yea it’s a race thing. Oh wait, they hired you, were you a different race then? Employers usually give you a choice, resign or we fire you. If she wants to call that forced then so be it. She is better off with a resignation on her record than a firing.

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    • Anonymous on January 28, 2022 9:12 pm

      You really think that’s how the world works? Can’t be any more stupid than you are. Fucking cuck.

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