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While Newton was in jail, Seale waged a national campaign to mobilize support for him, and he thus claims responsibility for the fact that Newton was not convicted of first-degree murder-the original charge against him in the 1968 slaying of a California policeman. Now when Newton is free and Seale is on trial, the latest news of Newton in the white press is that he is living in a $700 a month San Francisco apartment, in a "high-security" building...
Such incidents have been written about before as well as dramatized for TV audiences. In such cases they are usually presented for thrills, or to sharpen the pace of a story. In Centurions, they are encountered as a policeman would encounter them, matter-of-factly, almost at random, and all the more real for it. Wambaugh has also portrayed cops beating suspects, insulting Negroes, bending arrest reports to satisfy courtroom requirements, or stashing liquor in their favorite call boxes. The policeman-author, who is now a burglary detective, has been admonished by L.A. Police Chief Edward M. Davis, officially, because...
...demonstrators on the corner of Hemenway and Huntington across from the ROTC building began throwing rocks and bottles at police cars. One rock shattered the window of a passing police car, apparently injuring a policeman riding in the front seat...
Around the country there were protests. In Berkeley, 2000 demonstrators were met by police with rifles. One policeman was isolated in the crowd when he tried to retrieve a nightstick that had been stolen. He was severely beaten, and was treated for lacerations. Police charged the crowd, which fled, and later burned an AEC official...
They are very kind people; I'm never afraid that they will hurt me, though they all have huge machetes (which they used on a policeman in town a couple of days ago). As I walk along people ask me do I have money, or do I have bread. I carry bread, cheese, fruit and water in my backpack, so we sit down for something to eat. They are a very physically beautiful people. The women are still beautiful when they're 60. They all want to know about America. None of them seem to know that America is making...