University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ScholarWorks @ UTRGV History Faculty Publications and Presentations College of Liberal Arts Winter 2018 "A Bunch of Tough Hombres": Police Brutality, Municipal Politics, and Racism in South Texas Brent M. S. Campney The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,
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[email protected]. "A Bunch of Tough Hombres": Police Brutality, Municipal Politics, and Racism in South Texas Brent M. S. Campney Journal of the Southwest, Volume 60, Number 4, Winter 2018, pp. 787-825 (Article) Published by The Southwest Center, University of Arizona DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsw.2018.0016 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/721659 [ Access provided at 6 Nov 2020 14:46 GMT from University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley ] “A Bunch of Tough Hombres”: Police Brutality, Municipal Politics, and Racism in South Texas BRENT M. S. CAMPNEY “Everybody knew the McAllen police were a bunch of tough hombres, especially the Boys on C shift,” reported the Dallas Morning News on March 29, 1981.