Word: policemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beef and chocolate-covered cherries in a refrigerated trailer. And that was how I came to be chatting with a man carrying a revolver in a pitch-black hallway in a Memphis Holiday Inn one August night, when all the power was out in a city with all its policemen and firemen out on strike...
...basement. O'Neil then ordered a crane to begin demolishing the house as warnings were shouted over a police loudspeaker for MOVE to surrender. More water was poured into the basement. Trained police sharpshooters aimed at the house. Suddenly, someone fired a shot and the battle began. Policemen and firemen fell to the ground--some wounded, some trying to avoid bullets, one dead. After minutes of gunfire, the bedlam suddenly ceased, MOVE surrendered. But the toll was heavy: one police officer dead; about 18 policemen and firemen injured, many of them seriously; two MOVE members injured; and three MOVE sympathizers...
EARLY ONE MORNING in mid-August, 400 Philadelphia policemen milled outside a ramshackle Victorian house five blocks from the University of Pennsylvania campus, awaiting orders from their superiors. The policemen knew roughly what task was expected of them before the cool morning became a sweltering summer day; they were to rout about 20 members of an organization formed by former college professors, drunks, and poets from their headquarters-home, located in an area of the city known for its semiradical population largely composed of students and working-class blacks. The police looked forward to this confrontation with this hard...
...wooden MOVE-erected barricade, the basement of the three-story house was flooded. There was still no sign of surrender from the enigmatic MOVE members. O'Neill then ordered two dozen members of the special stake-out unit to walk inside and come out with the radicals. As the policemen gingerly walked inside, cries of infants were heard over a loudspeaker that MOVE members had used to hurl invectives at police. MOVE members had long sworn they would not come out alive. They warned that the police, by attempting to forcibly make them appear in court on violations...
...pumped streams of water through a cellar window, sending rats, dogs and people scurrying to safety. Suddenly, shots rang out. Police lobbed tear gas and smoke bombs into the house. After 45 minutes, the MOVE members -twelve adults and eleven children-stumbled out. The toll: one policeman dead; seven policemen, five firemen, three MOVE members and three bystanders wounded...