Eugene "Bull" Connor, former Birmingham, Ala. police commissioner and fiery segregationist, gestures during his speech, June 8, 1963, to the Tuscaloosa, Alabama County White Citizens Council.

What a president should be doing at this moment is trying to calm the country and bring it together, not fantasizing about how glorious it would be to witness bloodshed just outside his doorstep.

“Nobody knows who Bull Connor is, if we’re making the case to say if you’re gonna be with Martin Luther King or Bull Connor. Who’s that?” she said.

Eugene "Bull" Connor was Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety in 1961 when the Freedom Riders came to town. He was known as an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK.

Birmingham public-safety commissioner Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor at a press conference in Birmingham, Ala., May 10, 1963. Photo: Bettmann Archive ...

Go back and read what I said and tell me if you think I called anyone who voted on the side of position taken by Bull Connor that they were Bull Connor,” Biden said in response to a questions ...

Pennsylvania mayor full of Bull (Connor) Published: Jul. 29, 2018, 10:34 a.m. In May 1963 Birmingham Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor ordered police to blast protesters with fire hoses.

“The next few days … will mark a turning point in this nation’s history,” said President Joe Biden in his Atlanta speech to reframe the debate in Congress on voting rights legislation and ...

A Present-Day Bull Connor. Last week Donald Trump proposed pardoning Muhammad Ali, even though Ali’s conviction for refusing to be drafted into the Vietnam War had been already overturned.

The honor is named after Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor, the rabid segregationist who turned water hoses and police dogs on civil rights advocates in Alabama during the 1960s.