Do you find this information helpful? Stallworth later worked in the intelligence department and in the narcotics division as a detective.In October of 1978, Stallworth saw an ad in the local Colorado Springs newspaper stating that the Ku Klux Klan was starting a new chapter and looking for members. Stallworth phoned After the investigation into the Klan closed, Stallworth kept it a secret and told no one about his role in it. Klan was really doing great. It’s always been around, and will continue to be around, and that you shouldn’t focus on just a group called the Klan. He was one of the first in El Paso’s police department. “We weren’t hoping to do anything other than to gather the information that was out there on the KKK and its impact on Colorado Springs.”When the Klan invited him to participate in two of the cross burnings it was planning, Stallworth said he alerted police dispatch so the area would be saturated if they followed through with their plans.“Cross burnings are a domestic act of terrorism” that would have “unnerved the community,” Stallworth said. His first undercover assignment came when In 1979, Stallworth noticed a classified ad in the local paper seeking members to start a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs. members as possible, steer clear of entrapment scenarios, and do not question the members, no matter how ridiculous their beliefs or logic are. Ron Stallworth: When I was growing up, I knew a black police officer. After the death of Stallworth’s first wife, Micki, from cancer in 2004, Stallworth says he wandered in an “emotional wilderness” for six years before he and Patsy started talking again in 2010. Stallworth says her love, dedication and devotion to him has brought him out of that wilderness.
Asked what he hopes audiences take away from his story, reimagined by Lee, when it arrives in theaters, Stallworth said this: “I hope they recognize that racism is alive and well, that the Klan has never gone. . It also received a six-minute standing ovation there that brought the film’s star — John David Washington, who plays Stallworth and is the son of Oscar winner Denzel Washington — to tears.“I can’t believe what this man did,” said Washington, 33, who is being hailed for his breakout role in the film alongside Adam Driver, who plays his partner. As such, he brought a Polaroid camera to his face-to-face meeting with His first undercover assignment was to attend a speech given by Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael. When Duke expressed annoyance and tried to stop Stallworth from leaving with the photo, the detective reminded Duke that he could arrest him. plans, bragging and boasting and feeding me information . box, and provided them an address and phone number. When the photo was about to be snapped, black Ron Stallworth wrapped an arm around Duke and another Klansman. On November 1, 1978, two weeks after sending the letter, Stallworth received a call and was invited to join the KKK. “In public he concealed a lot.”Duke also wasn’t afraid to spew racial epitaphs in private either, Stallworth said.“In private he threw the word nigger around all the time in talking to me,” Stallworth said. Stallworth sent a letter to the post office box listed and included his office telephone number, but he mistakenly signed his real name to the letter, thinking nothing would come from it. Duke” and say it looked like the We just sat in stunned silence,” said Stallworth.
We were amazed by what we saw, and we were shocked by what we saw, and we had no words to describe what we saw once it was over with.
He had a few questions here and there, which I provided,” Stallworth said.