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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...
...sniper's fire drove it away. Finally four men, who had made their way separately to the tower building through subterranean passages or by zigzagging from building to building, decided to storm the observation deck. Three were Austin patrolmen who had never been in a gunfight: Houston McCoy, Jerry Day and Ramiro Martinez, who was off duty when he heard of the sniper, got into uniform and rushed to the campus. The fourth was Civilian Allen Crum, 40, a retired Air Force tailgunner, who had "never fired a shot" in combat...
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...
...told, McCoy's Navy has killed 665 Viet Cong, destroyed 4,367 buildings, sunk 297 gunrunning sampans, and fired 31,251 rockets. Most important, not a single South Vietnamese outpost within range of his rockets has been overrun during the three months his "little armada" has been in action. "The PT was the boat of World War II," he says...