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...Sept. 2, Larry Shockley, an off-duty policeman, fatally shot Randy Heath, 22, a black, in the back of the neck outside a warehouse. The officer, who was moonlighting as a security guard for the warehouse, contended that Heath had been trying to burglarize the building. Heath's sister, Theresa, 19, said her brother had merely gone to the side of the building to urinate. Again, Reno's office presented evidence to a grand jury but failed to get an indictment...
...closed in. The initial police report claimed that McDuffie's cycle had crashed, injuring him. This report also said that he fought off the police until they subdued him. By the time a fire department rescue truck arrived seven minutes later, McDuffie's face, according to one policeman there, "looked like it was sprayed with a can of red paint." McDuffie was still conscious but soon lapsed into a coma; he died four days later of head injuries...
Marrero admitted hitting McDuffie, but contended that he had done so only because the black man grabbed for the policeman's gun. Defense Attorney Edward Carhart told the jury that the attack on McDuffie was like a "barroom brawl," but he argued that it was impossible to determine who had delivered the fatal blow. He also stressed inconsistencies in the testimony of the state's police witnesses...
...country's highflying prosperity has recently slowed down. Unemployment has risen to 5.6% and is expected to pass 7% by the end of the year. Inflation has reached almost 20%. Last month workers at the Sabuk coal mines, demanding a 40% pay hike, rioted for three days; a policeman was killed and scores on both sides were injured before the miners settled for a 20% increase. Three weeks ago, the Tongmyung Timber Co. of Pusan, South Korea's largest plywood maker, went bankrupt, leaving liabilities of $106 million. Some of its 3,000 employees demonstrated for their unpaid...
This book passes from his hands to a policeman's; it is stolen by a juvenile delinquent and next appears as a prop in a pornographic photograph, which winds up back in Ignatius' hands...