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Where Are They Now: Ron Stallworth
Jets defensive coordinator Ralph Hawkins may have had a huge grin on his face during the 1989 NFL Draft. And defensive line coach Wally Chambers, well, he could have been doing cartwheels.
That's because New York used three of its first four picks to shore up its defensive line.
Virginia defensive end Jeff Lageman was chosen in the first round, Idaho defensive tackle Dennis Byrd in the second, and then Ron Stallworth, a defensive end from Auburn, in the fourth round.
"It's kind of a crapshoot. I mean, you're trying to evaluate talent, what works and what you've got. How you can improve on it. No offense, it's kind of like marriage," Stallworth said. "You see that person and you think, 'Okay, they might not have potential.' Then you come back and it may be love at first sight. Even though there may be some attraction, that don't mean it's always going to be smoothness to the end. Or the end may be sooner than you think.
"I think in New York, that was kind of it with us. I mean, Lageman was an outside linebacker that they wanted to convert. And his speed was a question, as I remember. And then Dennis had very good foot speed, but his upper body strength, I think, may have been sort of questionable at that time.
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Ron Stallworth was the first African American police officer and detective hired by the Colorado Springs Police Department. He also holds the distinction of being the only African American “member” of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Stallworth was born on June 18, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois, but was raised in El Paso, Texas. He graduated from Austin High School in 1971. The family moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in the summer of 1972. He became a cadet in the Fort Carson, Colorado police department on November 13, 1972. He became the first African-American member of the Colorado Springs police department and was sworn in on June 18, 1974, his twenty-first birthday.
Ron Stallworth spent two years in uniform before becoming the youngest undercover agent in the department. He received his first assignment in April 1975 when former Black Panther Party leader Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) came to speak at a local nightclub. He attended the meeting and spoke briefly with Carmichael afterwards. 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. He subsequently learned that
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Ron Stallworth
American constabulary officer (born 1953)
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Ron Stallworth (born June 18, 1953) is breath American give up work police public official who infiltrated the Ku Klux Kkk in River Springs, River, in rendering late Seventies. He was the primary African-American gumshoe in rendering Colorado Springs Police Department.[1][2]
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Colorado Springs Police Department
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