culprits that night, but overall, when it came down to the relationship with the police department and the black community, it was always hostile. >> ida b wells once said, "the ones who write the reports commit the murders." even when other officers know that something someone is doing within the department is wrong, there is such a wall of silence. the blue wall is what we call it. >> michael was the lawyer for glenn diamond and later michael donald, and he just knew that that was the lay of the land, that there was racism on every level and it needed to be fought. >> we're calling upon mobile's black community to be as cool as possible in response to this murder but at the same time, we

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