Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philadelphia has worked hard to eliminate friction between Negroes and police. It is one of the few cities with a civilian review board to handle complaints of police brutality. It assigns officers who patrol Negro areas to work in teams, with one white and one Negro cop in each red squad car. Yet when one such team answered a nighttime complaint that a car was blocking an intersection in a neighborhood near Temple University in North Philadelphia, where some 400,000 of the city's 600,000 Negroes live, the trouble began...
...found a Negro married couple quarreling. To clear the intersection, they tried to pull the woman, Mrs. Odessa Bradford, 34, out of the driver's seat. She kicked and punched them. A crowd of Negroes began to gather. Negro James Nettles, 41, jumped the officers from behind. One cop reached the police car radio, shouted two words into the mike: "Assist officer." That brought every available cruiser in the area. Nettles and Mrs. Bradford were led into a police wagon-but the riot...
Prepared for More. Every cop in the city was ordered to duty, some 1,400 of them sent into the riot area. Under strict orders not to shoot or to use riot trained police dogs, they moved against the mob with billy clubs. Some 150 people, including 35 police, were injured. About 165 rioters were arrested...
Always there are the innocent caught in the crossfire. On a Mekong Delta back road, a country cop flags down a row of buses packed with peasants, cabbages and poultry, to let a column of armored personnel-carriers rumble past to a fire fight just ahead. In a village hut in Kienhoa province, an old woman lies dying, broiled lobster-red from napalm, while a soldier spoons watery soup between her flayed lips. At another hamlet a teen-age girl, driven mad from the explosions of mortar shells, runs screaming from her house across the paddy-fields, stark nude...
...late-the twerp has just posted a sizzling letter of resignation. Can he get the letter back before it flies from Dublin to London? He rushes to the mailbox. "Sorry," says the mailman, "it's state property now." He tries to rob the mails. "Sorry," says a Dublin cop, "you can tell it to the judge." He cuts and runs to the airport. "Sorry," says the pilot of a chartered plane as it nose-dives at a hedgerow. "Never flew this plane before...