Word: gilligans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartment building across the street from Robert F. Wagner Junior High School sprayed a group of summer-school pupils with a hose and that the kids retaliated by throwing garbage-can covers and bottles at him. The superintendent, Patrick Lynch, fled into the building, and Powell followed him. Gilligan, who had just taken a radio to a repair shop in the building, heard the noise, ran out to the sidewalk to see what was going...
Contradictions. The basic contradictions in testimony lay in the claims of 15 teenagers, most of whom knew Powell, that Powell had not attacked Gilligan with a knife. Most of them said that Powell had fallen to the sidewalk after the first shot. Then, claimed ten of these witnesses, Gilligan fired two shots into Powell when he was down on the sidewalk...
...adult passersby reported that Powell definitely had wielded a knife and described the action much as Gilligan had. Another adult witness said he was sure that Powell had "an object" in his right hand. Two Negro friends of Powell testified that on the way to school, Powell had shown them two knives, given one to each to keep for him. After the superintendent fled into the building, said one friend, Powell asked him for a knife and declared: "I'm going to cut that . . ." The friend pretended that he no longer had the knife. The other youth said that...
Police could find no bullet marks in the recently cemented sidewalk to indicate that Gilligan had fired at Powell as he lay prone. One bullet was found in Powell's body, one passed through it, the third lodged in a doorjamb of the building. When one youth was confronted by evidence of this shot, which had taken an upward course, he recanted his testimony that Gilligan had fired at the fallen Powell, admitted that he had not even seen the shooting at all. Other youngsters conceded that a truck and spectators blocked their views...
...police department board is still investigating the case to determine whether Gilligan, a 17-year police veteran with 19 citations for meritorious police work, violated any department regulations. It will be under heavy pressure to find against him. Yet it should go without saying that anyone being attacked with a knife has a right to defend himself-and the grand jury displayed no doubt at all about that. Declared George Schuyler, one of two Negroes serving on the 23-man jury: "Our decision was unanimous. I did the right thing, and so did the rest of the jury...