Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allegations were met with skepticism and anger in Harlem, and last week a Manhattan jury acquitted Jonah of three counts of robbery and assault. Because Van Houten, 25, had been unable to identify Jonah as the other assailant, the prosecution's case depended for the most part on secondhand testimony. A neighbor of the Perrys' stated that Jonah told her he and Edmund had "run into some static" when they attacked a "d.t.," street slang for a + detective. One juror said later that the state's main witnesses "were not believable, not solid...
Twenty armored vehicles sealed off the nearby black township of Bekkersdal, and police conducted a house-to-house search for those involved in the officers' deaths. At one roadblock, they arrested two men carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and six hand grenades. A total of 86 blacks were charged with murder or public violence, while an additional 250 people were detained and interrogated...
...through what she did. Still, this does not excuse Ms. Martin from her prejudicial beliefs nor her use of the pejorative "bum" to describe one of the homeless men. Similarly, an asault by a Black man would not excuse the use of the term "nigger" nor would an assault by any other member of a minority group excuse the use of a prejudicial term. Throughout the letter, Ms. Martin demonstrates a prejudice against the homeless as being violent, dangerous, and generally malicious people that is evident in her argument...
...Medford man who assaulted a Harvard student outside of Claverly Hall last month was given a suspended sentence last week for assault and battery...
...tried to enter Leverett House, our home. He did not shout from the vent across the street where he had sought shelter for the night; he was standing next to us, close enough to reach out and strike us. At that moment, I believed he was going to physically assault us. We were incredibly frightened and half-ran to our entryway. The next day we reported the incident to the Masters of Leverett and the Senior Tutor...