Black police officers come to Sacramento to remember the fallen

Over 100 African-American police officers from as far away as the United Kingdom marched in Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood Thursday in honor of their fallen brothers and sisters.

The National Black Police Association holds the march annually in different cities each year. The march is part of their week-long training seminars.

“Out of the 800,000 police officers we have in America, only 10 or 11 percent of them are African-American,” NBPA executive director Ronald Hampton said.

The march is actually based on an event that happened in Boston, Mass., back in the mid 1970s.

African-American children were being bused into white neighborhoods to go to school and it was causing stress on Caucasian police officers due to segregation issues. Black police decided to take a pro-active approach and escort these black children into the white areas safely.

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