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...October 28, 1967, Oakland policeman John Frey tried to kill Huey Newton. Minister of Defense for the Black Panther Party. Immediately after Huey hit the ground, someone, from somewhere, shot and killed John Frey, Newton finally hailed a passing car, and asked to be driven to Kaiser Hospital. Now from Gene Marine's The Black Panthers...
...when he was in a hospital room being fed intravenously, police guards told him that they were going to cut the tubes. One pointed a loaded shotgun at his head and announced that he was going to kill him and report that he had tried to escape: then the policeman lowered his gun and said he wouldn't shoot Newton because he was going to die in the gas chamber anyway. It was a common practice for the police guards to kick the foot of the bed to jar Newton's wound open and to start it bleeding under...
...back in. But nobody was willing to make long range predictions. The police and the merchants seemed to be increasingly willing to use whatever means were required to transform the Square into a safe place for business. Talking to two longhairs at the end of the summer, one Cambridge policeman, not unsympathetic, seemed to put it best...
Interlude: On my way to cover minor demonstration at Federal plaza, very tired, hot, I stop and ask directions of policeman. Very young policeman. He in turn asks me, what do all these women want, and we talk. I have never actually talked to a policeman before, I tell him, and he says he has never talked to a demonstrator either. We are about the same age; he agrees finally that Women's Lib makes sense, but he won't discuss the war. I tell him about Harvard, about my nightmares of policemen charging, swinging clubs. I really do have...
Early one morning last week, a Manhattan patrolman walked up to a taxi parked across the street from Central Park. The driver sat slumped over the wheel, apparently asleep. Trying to arouse him, the policeman discovered that Benjamin Rivera, 44, was dying from a bullet wound close to his heart. The motive for Rivera's slaying was clear: his changemaker was missing...