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...violence. No police had been killed, and although rioters had thrown rocks and gasoline bombs, they had never used guns. All that changed in a few fierce hours last week when angry rioters, mostly blacks, rampaged through the north London neighborhood of Tottenham. A dozen youths hacked a policeman to death with machetes, and others fired shotguns, rifles and pistols at the police...
...violence in Tottenham was the worst in memory. In addition to the policeman's grisly death, 223 other officers and 20 civilians were injured, some 50 cars were set ablaze, one store was fire-bombed, and another was looted. The violence was ignited after police, searching for stolen goods, raided a black woman's house. While the police were still there the woman collapsed, and later died on the way to the hospital. Her family contended that she suffered a heart attack after officers pushed her to the floor. A day after word of her death spread through the neighborhood...
Such accidental shootings have raised questions about how well Britain's traditionally unarmed police are being trained in the use of firearms. One policeman in 10 is now authorized to carry a gun; in London, the ratio is 1 in 5. The shootings have hardened resentment among blacks who accuse the mostly white police force of insensitivity and racism. That lingering bitterness was evident the day after the Tottenham riot. Bernie Grant, a black Marxist who heads the local borough council, not only refused to condemn the killing of the officer but declared that the police had received "a bloody...
Requiring undergraduates to sign an additional contract when they enroll--an honor code--would apparently only serve to inform students that at Harvard you are not only a scholar, but a policeman...
...effort to help out a Harvard motorcycle policeman injured in an accident last month, University police are planning a benefit dance...