Clay Jenkins’ campaign manager has responded after a resurfaced police report in which four women allege Clay Jenkins broke into their apartment while wearing blackface.
“Judge Jenkins apologized then, when he was 19, and continues to be sorry for the poor judgment he exhibited at the time,” campaign manager Sean Gregory told The Texas Tribune. “He has never darkened his face in an attempt to appear as a member of another race.”
Gregory gave a statement to the Austin-based newspaper despite not responding to local media outlets including The Dallas Express.
While Gregory denies any racial component, the police report says one of the women alleged that “all three men were dressed in dark colored clothing like camouflage and had on dark oil…or paint or dark makeup on their faces to make them look like black people.”
As previously reported in The Dallas Express, documents from the Waco Police Department state that authorities initially thought that the suspects were “possibly black males,” before Jenkins and his associates were identified.
The police report asserted that three men “admitted…that they [had] gone into the apartment trying to scare the girls and said they did scare them.”
One of the alleged participants, Monty James, claimed to have done nothing wrong. He told the police that the crew had scared some 22 people across several apartments that night, and that “everyone thought it was funny except these four girls,” referring to the apparent victims who reported the incident to the police.
Jenkins was arrested in relation to the blackface break-in on September 29, 1983, by Waco PD.
Accusations of impropriety have previously swirled around Judge Jenkins, including allegations that he engaged in “panty raids” while in college.
Furthermore, Jenkins reportedly lied to voters by claiming that he was the first in his family to graduate from college, according to the former mayor of Carrollton.