Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terrance Johnson trial is acting as a spotlight, forcing many hidden community attitudes out into the open. To some people, this is long overdue; to others, it is just one more unwelcome and complicating change...
...Perry Smith, pastor of the Brentwood Baptist Church and a spokesman for the Terrance Johnson Defense Committee, said that an incident of this type "had to happen eventually; there are isolated instances of improved race relations here, but overt racism has not by any means been eradicated...
...adds that "you can see racism all over the county; most blacks just know which restaurants and places to avoid. Cross-burning and name-callings are typical. There's no way that boy (Johnson) could ever get off, but even if he did, he would never survive in this community...
Other people in P.G. County see the Johnson case as a simple matter of a black man killing two white policemen, a crime for which he must pay. The latter group includes mainly colleagues of the slain policemen and many white residents of P.G. County...
...publicity surrounding the Johnson trail has focused a lot of attention on the character and practices of the P.G. police force...