Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lethal undeclared war between the police and the Black Panthers flared up again last week, leaving still another key Panther leader dead. Just before dawn, a team of 14 heavily armed plainclothesmen from the Cook County State's Attorney's office raided a dingy West Side Chicago apartment, looking for a cache of illegal guns. Possessing a search warrant, the officers said that they forced open a barricaded door and were greeted by a shotgun blast. They returned the fire, setting off a furious ten-minute shoot-out with the apartment's occupants...
...roof of the Instrumentation Lab at least eight policemen and plainclothesmen were stationed with radios. One police officer carried a rifle with a telescopic sight...
After the group voted-first not to occupy the offices, and then not to occupy the corridors-they left and marched to instrumentation Lab Five at 45 Osborne St. Five uniformed MDDC police and several plainclothesmen were seen just inside the door-57 MDC police were reportedly assiged to Cambridge...
...filled with plainclothesmen was trapped by the crowd as it ran forward. The trapped car gunned ahead into the crowd, injuring an undetermined number of demonstrators, some of whom "went flying through the air," according to an eyewitness...
Police are continuing to refine plans for controlling violence if it should occur. St. Louis plainclothesmen are ready to single out and arrest troublemakers. Houston Chief Herman Short is prepared to "meet force with overwhelming force." Los Angeles police have seven helicopters and an elaborate battle plan involving National Guard and Army Reserve units to cope with violence. Cleveland police are ready to move decisively if the recent conviction and death sentence of Fred ("Ahmed") Evans-a black nationalist who led the fatal ambush of three policemen and a civilian last summer-should touch off rioting there...