U.S. Honors First Black Federal Officer LODD

Foote was killed in 1883 trying to protect a black man from an irate white mob.

William Henderson Foote's great grand niece Bettye Gardner, left, and great grand daughter Patricia Nolcox, right, is presented with U.S. flags, flown over the Capitol, by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Acting Director B. Todd Jones during a memorial ceremony honoring the first African American post-reconstruction era federal law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty, Monday, May 14, 2012 in Washington. The name of William Henderson Foote, a deputy collector with an ATF legacy agency, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), was unveiled on ATF's Memorial Wall during an event commemorating National Police Week. Foote was killed Dec. 29, 1883, in Yazoo City, Miss., almost 130 years ago. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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