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...years ago to attack militant Palestinians in Lebanon, and by his inability to protect the country from Israeli attacks (another one took place last week, aimed at Palestinian camps in the south). Finally a compromise was worked out: Ghanem was ordered on leave. He was replaced by Brigadier General Hanna Said, a Maronite officer less objectionable to Moslems, who was quickly promoted. Two thousand soldiers were then ordered to set up a buffer zone between battling forces without entering either Tripoli or Zgharta, which might provoke an encounter...
Byhalia blacks considered the charge overly lenient. Black leaders said they wanted Hanna charged with murder, but Sheriff Johnny Taylor maintained that only manslaughter was justified because no premediatation was involved in the killing...
Each side had its case. The businessmen complained bitterly that they were caught in the middle. They maintained that they had no control over the grand jury proceedings or the district attorney's office, and could not be held responsible for the legal actions taken against Officer Hanna. Even if they agreed with the black demands, the merchants said, there was nothing they could do about it. To severely punish them economically was not only unjust, but pointless, they insisted...
...isolated incident of a police killing, but rather as an example of far-reaching social, political and economic discrimination. Soon after the boycott started, and when it became clearly effective, the United League vastly expanded the number and scope of their demands. Not only did they want Hanna and the other Byhalia policeman indicted for murder, they also demanded representation of blacks on the town board of aldermen, the county supervisor's board, and the local electric utility; an improved local sewage system; the addition of blacks to the police force; action to attract a doctor to the town...
...situation was further complicated at the end of August when the grand jury finished its investigation. It refused to indict Hanna for manslaughter, and dropped all charges against him and the other officer involved in the killing. The district attorney called the grand jury probe "full, complete and very thorough." United League president Robinson called it "one of the lousiest investigations that has ever taken place in the state of Mississippi...