Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins allegedly wore blackface as a student at Baylor University while criminally trespassing in women’s bedrooms, according to recently released documents.
In copies of the police report obtained by Current Revolt, several women accused Jenkins of breaking into their apartment along with two other men.
A witness alleged to police 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.”
Documents from the Waco Police Department state that authorities initially thought that the suspects were “possibly black males,” before Jenkins and his associates were apparently identified.
The police report asserted that the 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 apparently 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.
The Dallas Express reached out to the office of Judge Jenkins but did not receive a response prior to publication.