Oklahoma City promotes first black female police captain
Twenty years ago, Vashina Butler was a young police officer when she first met Clara Luper , the matriarch of the city's Civil Rights movement.
Luper told Butler she would have the opportunity to achieve lots of “firsts” in her career as a black female police officer. Luper, who died earlier this month, was right. Butler recently became the first black female promoted to the rank of captain in the Oklahoma C...
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