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 Diop Kamau, formerly known as Don Jackson, was born on March 16, 1958 in Los Angeles, California to Margie and Woodrow Jackson. Margie was a nurse and the mother of six, including Diop. Diop's father was a Los Angeles County Sheriffs Deputy. Diop has four sisters and one brother. Diop attended Birmingham high school in the San Fernando Valley. Diop graduated from high school in 1976 and attended California Lutheran College in Thousand Oaks, California. Diop expressed an early interest in criminal justice issues and majored in administration of justice while in college.
In 1982 Diop transferred from the Ventura County Sheriffs to the Hawthorne California Police Department where he would be closer to his family. Diop worked a variety of assignments including vice-narcotics, traffic enforcement, and as a detective.
While a detective, Diop was promoted to an undercover assignment on a multi-jurisdictional task force. During his assignment with the West Regional Burglary Team, Diop was involved in the recovery of over 500,000 dollars in stolen property and 300 arrests.  Diop took three promotional exams while working with the Hawthorne Police Department. He placed first on each exam. Diop made sergeant faster than any other officer in the department and he was the youngest sergeant on the force at twenty-nine. His police evaluations proved he was a good employee and that he got along well with other officersDiop received several awards for exceptional performance in seven years with the Hawthorne Police Department. Despite his success as an officer, Diop continued to witness many acts of racism and brutality. Shortly after his promotion Diop's fellow officers engaged in a series of racists jokes. In January of 1987 he received a phony police report about a black man passed out in a watermelon patch.  On one occasion a supervisor directed him not to take a rape report on a black female victim. The supervisor said that black women enjoyed being raped and that he did not consider it a crime. Diop filed a complaint against the officer who was given only a written reprimand.
Diop became increasingly frustrated with the incidents of abuse and the overt racism he experienced. He found that the racially offensive conduct by other officers increased after he became a supervisor. Some Hawthorne officers even so far as to type out racial slurs over police computer terminals. In one exchange an officers quipped, “What's the definition of the American dream? Thirty-thousand blacks swimming back to Africa with a Jew under each arm."
Diop also found that some officers repeatedly posted racist literature on the walls of the police station. In February 1987 Diop filed a complaint with the Chief of Police. Watch the Video  Readers have left 25 comments.  25. UntitledGuest User, UnregisteredBad cop news is a better website to submit the crap police pull on people. 24. Re: Response to tazingGuest User, Unregistered I was there. Several people were trying to calm Joe down and hold Joe back. Joe went ballistic. He was taken home and told to stay home. Then he came back to the bar and started trouble again. Frankly was so drunk or high on drugs that he did not know what he was doing so it is no surprise that his memory is inaccurate. — Guest User This only shows how a Small Community has a mind set to not stand up and help a man who is fighting against drugs. This person who made this statement is most likely someone who Joe Thomas has helped put behind bars for their participation in drug dealing in Jacksonville Illinois. I was also there the night of the incident and Joe Thomas was not at all out of line. He in fact was probably more in line than most of the people outside the bar in which he was tased. 23. Response to tazingGuest User, Unregistered I was there. Several people were trying to calm Joe down and hold Joe back. Joe went ballistic. He was taken home and told to stay home. Then he came back to the bar and started trouble again. Frankly was so drunk or high on drugs that he did not know what he was doing so it is no surprise that his memory is inaccurate. 22. volunteerdominique bell, Unregistered i have four years of military experience and now entering law enforcement as a civilian i am now ready and iterested in assisting you with thie ongoing process of getting bad cops of the street. you can reach me at 440-715-3818. thanks, dominique 21. Corrupt Police Force in Small CommunityJoe, Unregistered I have been a very outspoken drug activist in Jacksonville Illinois. Speaking out about how the police departments and states attorney's office allows the drugs to flood our town. By speaking out about this problem and attacking Police Officers and our states Attorney on my webpage has caused me to be harassed on numerous ocassions and arrested. The last arrest was because I was arguing in public with someone and the officer tazed me twice without merit. This particular officer had been subject to complaints on my webpage. I was never told I was being arrested nor was I told to stop arguing. Several people were verbally assulting me and I was the only one who was tazed. www.jacksonvillespeakingout.com 20. good cops gon badGuest User, Unregistered For more true bad cop news you could look at www.blufftonsnews.com see the story on the 12 year old boy
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