Bull Connor was the Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham in the 1960s and led a violent crackdown on civil rights protestors.
This violent crackdown included the siccing of police dogs on protestors and the use of fire hoses on protestors. National attention turned to the treatment of the protestors when news reports showed video of how the protestors were being violently attacked by the police and public opinion turned against Bull Connor.
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