There may have been a case of reverse discrimination in East St. Louis. City officials are seeking a new police chief, but they passed up the former director of the Florida Highway Patrol, Ronald Grimming, who formerly was a top commander of the Illinois State Police and two former members of the city board claim it is because he is white. Wyatt Frazer and Della Murphy allege in a federal lawsuit that they were forced off the Police, Fire and Civil Service Board for their advocacy of a white candidate when the chief's job was open in 2007. The suit against Mayor Alvin Parks, City Manager Robert Betts and the city itself does not identify Grimming by name or qualifications.
According to U.S. census records, East St. Louis has a 97.7 percent black population. The candidate they chose at the time was Michael Baxton Sr., an African-American who had been a police detective in adjoining Centreville and police chief in Brooklyn, a village of fewer than 700 residents.
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