Word: mccoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trust Officers Martinez and McCoy of the Austin police will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for the way they conducted themselves during the slaughter on August 1. It would appear that these policemen went to the University of Texas tower and shot that nice young man without even extending to him the courtesy of first informing him of his rights, such as his right to refuse to be questioned if he didn't feel like being questioned, his right to have a lawyer at his side, etc. Didn't this constitute police brutality...
...Real McCoy...
...TIME'S story "McCoy's Navy" [Aug. 5] recalls my first meeting with Roy McCoy. He was building a bicycle rack for a school in Coronado, Calif. In contrast to the pickets who express their discontent by merely marching in circles, the McCoys are the kind of people who actively meet the needs of community life. Should hostilities cease tomorrow, McCoy would be looking for ways to build bridges of good will and mutual understanding. Ingenuity and creative action are part of his life style. HAROLD A. MACNEILL Chaplain, U.S.N. Portsmouth...
...Barrows injured a knee and an elbow, had to be scratched from the men's downhill; Idaho's Walter Falk fell during the race and suffered a concussion. The bright young star of the women's team, California's 16-year-old Penny McCoy, did give the U.S. one medal - its only one -when she finished third in the ladies' special slalom. But a sprained ankle forced her out of the grand slalom...
Fifty feet away from him, in the northwest corner, crouched Whitman, his eyes riveted on the corner that Crum was about to turn. Martinez poured six pistol shots into Whitman's left side, arms and legs. McCoy moved up, blasted Whitman with a shotgun. Martinez, noting that the sniper's gun "was still flopping," grabbed the shotgun and, blasted Whitman again. As an autopsy showed, the shotgun pellets did it: one pierced Whitman's heart, another his brain. Crum grabbed a green towel from Whitman's foot locker, waved it above the railing to signal ceasefire...