Howard Leslie Quigg (18871980) was an American policeman who was twice the chief of police in

Miami, Florida Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...

, in the periods 1921-1928 and 1937–1944. Quigg was a member of the

Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and ...

. In 1928, he and some of his officers were accused of the murder of a Black man in their custody. Quigg was indicted in 1928 after three Miami police officers beat Harry Kier, a Black bellboy, to death for allegedly insulting a white woman at the hotel where he worked. Although he was taken into custody in late March, the criminal charges were dismissed by May because the witness did not testify. He was succeeded as police chief by Guy C. Reeve in 1928, and by Charles O. Nelson in 1944. Quigg died of a stroke in 1980, at the age of 92.

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1887 births 1980 deaths Chiefs of the Miami Police Department American Ku Klux Klan members {{Florida-bio-stub