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...nine members of the coroner's jury filed into hot, crowded Room 150 of the Los Angeles County Hall of Justice. Had they reached a verdict? They had: Leonard Deadwyler, 25, an unemployed Negro mechanic, had been shot, and 'killed, accidentally by white Los Angeles Patrolman Jerold Bova early last month, after he was stopped while speeding his pregnant wife to a hospital (TIME, June...
...window or two were smashed; a Molotov cocktail arced through the darkness. But the facts of the Deadwyler case-demonstrated to all through the dumb, impartial TV eye-carried conviction. Negro witnesses contradicted one another repeatedly, offering little to back up Mrs. Barbara Deadwyler's story that Bova had stuck his revolver through the car window to shoot her husband deliberately. One swore that the shot was fired from a moving police car; others divided on the crucial point as to whether the Deadwyler car had lurched forward after it stopped, as Bova said it had done, and caused...
Police Inspector John Powers, however, indirectly chided Bova for not following the rulebook when he put his revolver-and the whole upper part of his body-inside a suspicious car. Said he: "When an officer sticks his head in the door of the car, he stands the chance of either being shot or struck by the suspect in the vehicle. He places himself at a disadvantage...
...Chief William Parker, he was in a desultory mood. "I'm getting a little weary of attacks on the police department, and the men are too," he said. "It looks like Oswald had more people defending him when he shot the President of the United States than Officer Bova had defending...
...police told a different story-of a wild 40-block chase at 80 m.p.h. and an apparently drunken driver who stepped on the gas just as the investigating officer reached in the window. Taking the stand in his own behalf, Bova, 23, said that the car "gave a sudden lurch forward. My feet were knocked out from under me. I recall making a grab to get my balance. At this time, my revolver was unintentionally fired...