Chief Leroy Cotman Waller

ID: 5872 ~ Source: "Needn't Pay Chapman for Going to Jail: Judge doesnt Blame the City or Ex-Chief Waller for It." Spokane Chronicle, June 23, 1908. ~ Creator: Photograph courtesy of Spokane Chronicle

This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”: Racial profiling in Spokane at the Turn of the 20th Century

Waller was Chief of Police in Spokane from August 1904 to May 1907.

This file appears in: “Will Be Run Out of the City”: Racial profiling in Spokane at the Turn of the 20th Century

“Will Be Run Out of the City”: Racial profiling in Spokane at the Turn of the 20th Century

By Julianna Amante

Sometimes the law comes swift and unfairly as with the African American sex workers of downtown Spokane in the early 1900s.