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...when it came, they moved right through the Yard and out onto Mass. Ave. Harvard Police Chief Robert Tonis later said that the police entered the Yard "through the fire gate by cutting a lock." They marched through the Yard to the Gate by Harvard Hall, where a University policeman unlocked the gate and let them out. Tonis said that the Cambridge Police "felt it was a necessary tactical movement to prevent injury to the men." The Police Department refused to make any comment...
...People believe that an attack on policemen is really an attack on society. It's the symbol of authority that's being attacked." Clarence Coster, of the Justice Department's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, agrees: "It's this whole confrontation with the Establishment, and the policeman is the most visible part of that Establishment...
...epidemic are not exclusively black. "If a group like the Weathermen create an atmosphere of tension and hate," he argues, "it is much easier for a black man who has possibly been abused-or thinks he has been abused-to go ahead and 'execute' a policeman, especially when different black groups advocate these 'executions...
...like suicide. It doesn't take many senseless attacks to get Americans to the point where they will condone virtually any retaliatory move on the part of the police." TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce, a black who spent nearly five years on the Chicago force, notes: "As a former policeman, I'm placed in a moral dilemma. I am aware that there is a necessity for 'law and order' in its most unadulterated sense. But I am also aware of the need to eliminate what has been a double standard in dealing with blacks and whites...
...rather than alone, establishing special crews of marksmen available for anti-sniper duty, asking for the right to tote shotguns in their squad cars (see box). But some thoughtful cops concede that such measures are not the solution. Says Chief Lacoste: "If someone is really interested in killing a policeman, there is not much you can do about it. There are only so many precautions you can take and still be a functioning police department...