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My granddad worked in Harlan County during some shit there though I don’t know details. I do know he moved his family way away from Harlan even though he continued working there and I assume that was because of the danger involved
**Sid Hatfield (1891 - 1921)**
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William "Sid" Hatfield was a police chief of Matewan, West Virginia who was supportive of coal miners' attempts to unionize, for which he was assassinated [on this day](https://www.apeoplescalendar.org/calendar/day/8-1) in 1921 by anti-labor Baldwin-Felts agents.
As a police officer in Matewan, he had helped coal miners and their families resist the Baldwin-Felts agency, which was an anti-union force who evicted working families from their homes and harassed strikers.
He is most known for his role in "The Battle of Matewan", a shootout between Hatfield, armed miners, and Baldwin-Felts agents that killed ten people. The shootout occurred when Hatfield and Albert Felts tried to arrest each other, which culminated in Hatfield killing Felts.
Hatfield was later assassinated by Baldwin-Felts agents while standing trial for murder, which increased the tensions between coal miners and company owners. Although Hatfield was unarmed when he was gunned down by the agents, his assassins successfully avoided any conviction for their crime on the basis of self-defense.
Read more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Hatfield
https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1576
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<:: The only good cop ::>
That's what I came by to say.
This is why there can be no good cops - they are either forced out of the "job", or they end up like Hatfield.
True. He was an outlier even for his time. Everyone should read up on the coal wars, very important under mentioned historical event
The Cool People who Did Cool Suff podcast recently did an episode on the Coal Wars. Serious shit!
Absolutely love that podcast. Margaret is doing really great work.
An *Orwellian* cop, I'd say - cops are so damn odious that using this qualifier to describe them actually makes them sound *less* evil.
My granddad worked in Harlan County during some shit there though I don’t know details. I do know he moved his family way away from Harlan even though he continued working there and I assume that was because of the danger involved
**Sid Hatfield (1891 - 1921)** **Image Transcription**: Looks like we don't have an image caption for this event yet. Feel free to suggest one below. William "Sid" Hatfield was a police chief of Matewan, West Virginia who was supportive of coal miners' attempts to unionize, for which he was assassinated [on this day](https://www.apeoplescalendar.org/calendar/day/8-1) in 1921 by anti-labor Baldwin-Felts agents. As a police officer in Matewan, he had helped coal miners and their families resist the Baldwin-Felts agency, which was an anti-union force who evicted working families from their homes and harassed strikers. He is most known for his role in "The Battle of Matewan", a shootout between Hatfield, armed miners, and Baldwin-Felts agents that killed ten people. The shootout occurred when Hatfield and Albert Felts tried to arrest each other, which culminated in Hatfield killing Felts. Hatfield was later assassinated by Baldwin-Felts agents while standing trial for murder, which increased the tensions between coal miners and company owners. Although Hatfield was unarmed when he was gunned down by the agents, his assassins successfully avoided any conviction for their crime on the basis of self-defense. Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Hatfield https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1576
Was he of the Hatfield-McKoy fued Hatfields?
He was
Those families are fascinating.
Some claim an only good cop is a dead one, and this provides supporting evidence to that claim.
Fascinating...thank you the post!
I live a few miles from Matawan and this guy is baller
The fate of every “good” cop
Check out the excellent film Matewan with a very young Bonnie Prince Billy as a kid caught up in the miners’ struggle