Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Infuriated, a burly ex-cop dragged Negro Memphis Norman, 21, off his stool, slugged him to the floor. As the Negro lay there, the white man kicked him in the face, kicked him again and again and again. Later, Norman was sent to a hospital-and charged with disturbing the peace...
Carrying American flags, the first demonstrators headed toward a phalanx of 60 cops four blocks away. A police captain shouted through a bullhorn that they would be arrested if they did not have a parade permit. The marchers stopped. A cop smashed a Negro above the knees with his night stick. And many demonstrators obediently climbed into trucks for the trip to the hogpen prison...
...foreign tourists, the Paris cop seems a model of quiet courtesy. He directs them to American Express and Thomas Cook with a debonair salute; he guides gladiatorial traffic with a calm nonchalance. Frenchmen look on le flic quite differently. Apart from their dislike of taking orders from anyone, they know that frequently in the hem of his natty blue cape is sewn enough buckshot to break a man's-and sometimes a woman's-nose. They have seen him wading into a crowd flailing a 6-ft. riot cane like a scythe...
Parisians recall many bloody heads across the years, especially the nine people killed in the crush when police broke up a 1962 peace rally. But the latest uproar began in April, when Cinemactor Jean-Paul (Breathless) Belmondo dared to protest that a cop was neglecting an accident victim while quizzing witnesses; Belmondo was knocked flat. During May, four prisoners detained for trifling offenses hanged themselves in their cells. There was no evidence to prove that the police were at fault, but no one could convince suspicious Frenchmen that the deaths were not caused by third-degree tactics. Paris has also...
Chasing a 14-year-old Negro burglary suspect, a cop pulled his revolver, fired and wounded the boy in the neck. Moments later, the neighborhood swarmed with outraged Negroes. In the streets and from rooftops, several hundred Negroes hurled stones and bottles at police, as two dozen patrol cars with four dog teams screamed into the area. Negro vandals broke into a tavern, stole whisky and beer, started a fire, and then stoned firemen who answered the alarm...