Word: maim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said at a City Hall press conference. "I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force" to stop the burning and looting that erupted in the Windy City, Daley appointed a nine-man "blue ribbon...
...dreams." Arthur J. Bilek, a former Chicago police lieutenant now administering the criminal justice curriculum at the University of Illinois, said: "A bullet fired into the body of a suspected looter is, after all, a quite irrevocable act." Others blurred the distinction between Daley's kill and maim categories. Said Arnold Sagalyn, a U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department official and member of the President's riot commission: "It clearly seems wise public policy not to deprive a person of his life, particularly without a trial, for a crime that may involve property worth only a few dollars...
...favor of his stand reached his office. Some even suggested that Daley run for President. Few of the hard-liners noted that in the confusion of a riot, police would have to be veritable Lone Rangers in their marksmanship to pick off arsonists or to "maim" running looters, supposedly hitting them in the legs to bring them down. Moreover, warned U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the indiscriminate use of "deadly force" could lead to "a very dangerous escalation of the problems we are so intent on solving...
Upset by the furor, Chicago's Daley later tried to ameliorate the psychological impact of his kill-and-maim statement. "There wasn't any shoot-to-kill order," he said lamely. "That was a fabrication." In fact, Daley's tough new order still stood. Whether the "deadly force" he intends to apply in future rioting will serve as a goad or a preventive may well be tested in the summer ahead...
Will we make Martin Luther King's undiminished and unyielding dream of an integrated and just society of black and white a reality? Or will we allow the slow motion of judicial, all deliberate speed to continue to maim the minds of the young, black and white alike...