Pearl, MS Police Chief Nick McClendon arrested the same correspondent twice in a single day for filming inside a public building. Now he's the defendant in a federal civil rights lawsuit.
60 years after the Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi's fire of inequality still blazes strong. A new documentary compares Pearl's brutal civil rights history with modern discriminatory policing practices. The haunting footage reveals cops willing to go to any length.
A police chief whose former officer received 10 years in federal prison for civil rights violations arrested a journalist for walking through an unlocked door in a public building. Nick McLendon set a $20,000 bond for simple trespassing.
