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...case centered on the killing of three Negro youths. By the time Hersey arrived in Detroit last September, the affair had become something of a local cause celèbre. Both the Detroit News and the Free Press had published accounts, and three policemen involved had been suspended from the force. Hersey had planned to write on the riots in general, but he found them too diffuse to handle and decided to focus on the single incident. Even so, the episode, as he describes it, "is so complex, the cast of characters so huge, that I simply could not assume...
...served for a year and a half on the vice squad, and he apparently enjoyed his work. It seemed as if his career had consisted of one case after another in which a man or woman had confronted him with some obscene gesture or lascivious remark. Senak admitted to Hersey that a "bad aspect" of his work was that he had never fallen in love with a girl before he joined the force. His arrest of some 175 prostitutes had given him, he said, "a sort of bad attitude toward women in general. I know all women aren...
Charge of Harassment. What particularly seemed to enrage the police at the Algiers Motel, according to the Negroes Hersey interviewed, was the presence of two young white prostitutes. Senak, said a witness, ripped the clothes off one with the barrel of his shotgun and ordered the other to undress before the officers. He demanded to know why they preferred Negroes as clients. "What's wrong with us, you nigger lovers?" Another cop then chimed in: "We're going to fill up the Detroit River with all you pimps and whores...
...pending trial. Last month Senak, two other cops and a Negro night watchman were all indicted by a Federal grand jury for conspiring to deprive the victims of their civil rights. Most of the witnesses to the shooting, as well as members of their families, told Hersey that they have been constantly harassed by the police. Some have been jailed, some beaten...
...invited them. Whatever the case, all occupants of the car admit that a fight ensued. Senak pulled a knife, and both girls ended up badly cut. They reported the incident to the police but refused to press charges. "The reason I got in trouble all over again," Senak told Hersey, "was because I was overzealous. It was my instinct of a police officer-though I was suspended...