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This remains to be seen. In the days following the attack, the Iraqi National Police??told Kim that the detainee would be sent to Baghdad for trial. They also volunteered that, under questioning, the detainee's father was "not shocked whatsoever about his son; rather, he was upset that his son admitted to committing the crimes." "Other than that," reported Kim, "nothing new has taken place." He planned a return to Ras al-Koor to search the young man's house again. He has also decided to put Pfc. Maqi up for a medal...
...We had police??officers standing guard to ensure that a human being died a slow death while her family watched in horror and was powerless to do anything to help. Was this the U.S. in 2005 or a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s...
...discovered that none of the hydrants were working. The mobile water tanks they brought to the scene ran dry before the fire could be brought under control. The screams of the dying carried into the streets as would-be rescuers stood by helplessly. One witness charged later that the police???whose station is located only a block from the Rex?made no attempt to free those trapped in the inferno...
...dissenting students fought with "straights" over whether the flag should be lowered to half-staff to honor the Kent State dead. Three of the dissenters came away with knife wounds. One confrontation at U.C.L.A. was often something of an absurdist frolic, with students advancing on and retreating from the police???the "blue meanies"?in a sort of Keystone Kops ballet. Police would chase kids frantically past heedless couples smooching on benches. When one shift of police went off duty, the students shouted: "Manatia, pigs!" A cop would smile and wave goodbye...
From his house, Jesse recalls, he could look down one street and watch gamblers and bootleggers running from cops. "Firemen, rent collectors, store owners, police???these were my symbols of white authority, and we hid from all of them." He could look in another direction and see symbols of black respectability: a neatly kept house containing a family with three well-educated schoolteachers. He could also see a white school, but instead of attending it he had to walk five miles to reach his black school. He experienced cruder prejudice early. At the age of six, he rushed happily into...