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Initially, at least, authorities could not even determine whether the two men died of gunshot wounds or shrapnel from tear-gas canisters. Some 200 lawmen, including state policemen and Sheriff Al Amiss' deputies, had set up a U-shaped cordon in front of the administration building that about 200 students had occupied. The officers were armed with both shotguns and tear-gas canisters; but television film suggested that it was the students who tossed the first tear-gas bombs. Both Amiss and the state police claim that their men fired no shots, only tear gas, while students insisted that...
Anyone who has tried to muscle in on the established traffickers, or avoid paying the 50% cut demanded by local gangs, has usually been found dead. But 15 of the war's casualties have been lawmen. Most of the victims were gunned down Chicago-style, by old-fashioned .45-cal. tommy guns fired from moving cars...
...report contains the same Catch-22 flaw that exasperated drinkers and lawmen during Prohibition. The committee proposed, in essence, that private possession of marijuana be legalized, but that trafficking in the weed for profit should remain a criminal offense...
...show that there had been indiscriminate gunfire, Connie Slaughter and other attorneys from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law established in court that at least 200 shots were fired during the 29-second barrage. All 43 lawmen admitted that they had fired; only three claimed to have seen any sign of the third-floor sniper who supposedly prompted the fusillade. But although the dead and most of the wounded were on the ground, none of the patrolmen would admit having aimed below the third floor of the dormitory...
...THOSE coppers radio in to headquarters, after they finish rounding everybody up, since everybody is already out in the Spruce Creek area, they send in five sheriff's cars full of deputies and surround the guy, five lawmen to every car, twenty-five Volusia County Sheriffs and deputies, and they jump the guy. And take him into the cop station, with the rest...