Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police officers from the town of Byhalia, Miss. (pop. 750), for hit-and-run driving. With the Byhalia police was a black deputy sheriff from adjacent DeSoto County, where the alleged hit-and-run incident had taken place. The sheriff climbed into the back of the Byhalia officers' car along with Young, and the three policemen set off to take their prisoner to jail. Young never made...
Within an hour, the arresting officers told the attending physician at a county hospital that Young had made his way out of the back of the patrol car (which had no door or window handles). In trying to escape, they said, Young had run into a fence and broken his neck. But Marshall County Coroner Osborne Bell found a bullet wound in Young's left armpit, and no evidence of a broken neck. When he confronted the police with his findings, they literally bolted from the hospital...
...noon, CAR's proposal to picket Hicks's house reaches a vote. Seideman hurries to the aisle mike and tells the crowd not to accept it; CAR is reactionary, there is too great a risk of violence. Support for the proposal is neglible...
...pacifists, either. You don't fight racism because it's a moral issue, but because it's a life and death issue." He is a very nice guy. He's very friendly and talkative, though he doesn't say that the Progressive Labor Party is behind CAR. By 12:50, the affair is over, and Jeff Mirelowitz, a YSA organizer, denounces CAR's action as an "adventure and a disruption...
...adventure and a disruption, and though CAR evidently feels it expresses their legitimate desires, their action seems more to represent their frustration with the situation in Boston, with their elected leaders, and with this conference. Something must be done here and now, they say, but they can only mount a futile, petty action...