Fired Jasper Police Chief at the Center of a Divide
JASPER, Texas — Three weeks after Rodney Pearson became Jasper County’s first black state highway patrolman, he responded to a call from the Jasper Country Club. As he pulled up to the clubhouse, his partner told him to wait.
“‘You can’t go in here,’” Pearson said his partner told him. “‘Just sit in the car.’”
Only whites were allowed inside. It was 1992.
Despite that jarring first impression, Pearson said there was not a pattern of racism in the town where he would raise his children. That changed nearly two decades later, he said, when he became the first ...
Comments (3)
Felipe Gutierrez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? You think people would change for the better. Or a town for that matter.
andrea caples
Get your facts straight before writing these stories!!!!! You left off the part where he sexually assaulted women while he was police chief!!!!!
Andrea Caples via Texas Tribune on Facebook
as someone from Jasper Tx. i would like to just tell who ever wrote this story to get the facts straight before writing these stories. The fence in question was put up to stop livestock from trampling grave markers. did the reporter who wrote this story even go to the courthouse to do research or did he take what Pearson said as the truth??? Pearson left out the fact that several women have filed complaints about Pearson for sexual assualt......