Charles Richard Garland Jr. (July 7, 1927 – May 24, 1969) was an American film, stage and television actor, who portrayed Constable Clay Horton in the popular CBS television series Lassie from 1954 to 1956.[1] (wikipedia)
If I can get a 10-year-old a pair of Air Jordans, his allegiance is to me.
We've got to help each other out, because this problem isn't going away.
I've been there and done it. I'm a living example to a lot of folks that they can do the right thing too.
I go to community meetings and everybody's jumping up and down, hollering at the police. He ain't the problem. ... We talk racism, we talk class. When do we put the onus on the community? Why are you letting this stuff go on?
He was one of the last ones I would have thought would get into that.
The drug dealers became these kids' best friends. They'd recruit these kids to be lookouts. The street raised these kids.
He connected to the kids through the sports. That's one of the reasons I was interested in having him work with us.
One of the biggest things in the African-American community, people don't report crime.
