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READ ABOUT:   Little Rock's Newest Corrupt Police Chief Kenton Buckner TPM  LIVEWIRE By CATHERINE THOMPSON Published AUGUST 24, 2015, 12:46 PM EDT A book club made up of mostly black women say they were racially targeted Saturday by a wine tour company that escorted them off a train for laughing too loudly. Author Lisa Johnson  told The Napa Valley Register newspaper  that her book club, which included 10 black women and one white woman, was escorted off the Napa Valley Wine Train and met by local police officers after a maitre d' twice warned them to quiet down. “We thought the purpose of the Wine Train was to have a good time and enjoy being with a large group," Johnson told the newspaper. "No one told us of any noise ordinance. If you get a group of 11 women talking and laughing, it’s going to be loud." The author chronicled the book club's brief stay on the train, the maitre d's complaints and the trip's aftermath

READ ABOUT:   Little Rock's Newest Corrupt Police Chief Kenton Buckner READ ABOUT:   Little Rock's Newest Corrupt Police Chief Kenton Buckner LITTLE ROCK MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER TO POLICE STATE LITTLE ROCK, AR — Police in Little Rock are gearing up in anticipation to violent clashes in other states by stepping up efforts to protect officers. Over the last week every certified officer at the Little Rock Police Department has been fitted for riot gear. Currently, the equipment is only issued to the 45 officers on the Special Response uni t. But the department wants to buy enough for all 535 officers. LRPD says recent clashes between police and protesters in cities like Baltimore show the need to step up officer protection. “We have to be prepared if there is an incident like that should it occur here,” said LRPD Sgt. Cassandra Davis. But some worry the new equipment will do more harm than good. “It does more to aggravate and incite rioting than it does to deter it,” sa