Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birmingham police department's six-wheeled riot tank thumped onto the scene and cops began firing shotguns over the heads of the crowd while Negroes pelted them with rocks. Later, Negro youths began stoning passing white cars. The police ordered them to stop. One boy, Johnny Robinson, 16, ran, and a cop killed him with a blast of buckshot. That made five dead and 17 injured in the bomb blast...
...fano, 37. From a hideout in Caracas the F.A.L.N. issued bulletins, even held a press conference to exhibit their prisoner, while Venezuelan police scurried helplessly about looking for them. Finally, 56 hours after his abduction, Di Stéfano was released unharmed. On the street the first cop he approached refused to believe he was really Di Stéfano...
...ineptitude of the police is a sharp reversal of the days of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, when Venezuelan cops, although quick to torture political prisoners, at least caught crooks and hoodlums. But after the revolution of 1958, Venezuelans-fed up with ten years of police brutality-opted for heavily diluted police authority. Today, rather than one central police force, Caracas has six-all with different bosses and varying assignments. Cooperation is a sometime thing. Last week, after four men held up a Pepsi-Cola warehouse seven miles outside Caracas, an employee pursuing them down the highway...
...should therefore write off Gordon Parks's The Learning Tree as just another fictional recollection of an all-American boyhood. For Newt Winger is a Negro. His graduation ceremony is segregated, and the defeated bully (another Negro) is driven to his death by a white cop. His brother-in-law is a dangerous drunk who loads a shotgun whenever he gets loaded himself, and blazes away at the sky shouting "I'm gonna blow the ass off Jesus Christ, the long-legged white son-of-a-bitch...
...King sent out his marchers, Connor had them mowed down by streams from fire hoses. Shocking news photos splashed across the pages of the world's press-of a young Negro sent sprawling by a jet of water, of a Negro woman pinioned to the sidewalk with a cop's knee at her throat, of police dogs lunging at fleeing Negroes...