Word: broussard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gunpoint, hit with boards studded with nails and then, as one participant put it, pushed into the street to "let the people deal with them." They were attacked by a mob until one escaped over a fence and the other found sanctuary in a grocery store operated by Clarence Broussard, a black accused of exploiting project residents. Police conceded that Bush and Legs were undercover agents...
Though the N.C.C.F. carries relatively little weight with most residents of the Desire project, the police tactics enraged many of them. Officers and residents exchanged curses and glares throughout the day. That night, four black officers hid in Broussard's grocery after hearing that it would be fire-bombed by black militants angry at the shopkeeper...
...approach, some members carrying Molotov cocktails. Police and civilian witnesses differ on who opened fire first, but shooting broke out. Some of the firing apparently was done by Broussard and another jittery grocery-store owner, Sidney Forman. When the shooting was over, three blacks were wounded and a fourth lay motionless under a street lamp for more than two hours; both police and residents feared to present themselves as targets in the light. The man, Kenneth Borden, 24, was dead when residents finally reached him. Sporadic violence, mostly firebombings, continued nightly in and outside the project, as the death...