LAGRANGE, Ga. – Police Chief Lou Dekmar publicly apologized Thursday night more than 76 years after the brutal slaying of a black man here. Dekmar publicly apologized for the lack of protection given ...

The chief of police in LaGrange, Louis Dekmar, is getting attention for training law enforcement officers with an option to shoot to wound, but not kill, in some situations where deadly force is ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - The police chief of a small Georgia city will publicly apologize on Thursday for the lynching of a young black man almost 77 years ago, an official gesture historians say is rare ...

LAGRANGE, Ga. – Even the 43-year-old mayor, who has lived his entire life in this west Georgia city of approximately 30,000 citizens, said he didn’t know until recently the ugly secret of racial ...

Police Chief Louis Dekmar of LaGrange, Ga., publicly apologized Thursday more than 76 years after a black man was brutally murdered in the small town, CBS News reports. To be specific, Dekmar ...

LaGRANGE, Ga. (WTVM) – LaGrange Police Chief Lou Dekmar is retiring, after nearly fifty years in law enforcement. Dekmar spent twenty-eight years with the LaGrange Police Department LaGrange Mayor Pro ...

Participants and supporters in the Greater Achievement Youth Empowerment Academy tutoring program in LaGrange include program coordinator Glenn Dowell (back row, second from left), Police Chief Lou ...

LaGrange Police Chief Lou Dekmar was recently awarded the honorary doctorate degree from the Central Police University in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, according to a news release from the city. Dekmar is the ...