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...former Algiers residents, Robert Lee Davis, 20, and Johnny Brownlee, 23, told of being handcuffed, then beaten by New Orleans police with a hardback city directory; of being suffocated with a plastic bag; and of being taken out to a wooden bridge over a levee and having a shotgun put to their heads. One New Orleans detective, a black who had been given immunity from prosecution, corroborated some elements of the government's case. More than 20 other police officers, however, denounced the testimony of the accusers. "There are high-pressure salesmen and there are low-pressure salesmen," said...
...tires slashed or were set afire. Although Capps was the only fatality, more than 50 others were injured, several seriously. Trucker Howard Abrams, 45, was shot in the chest while unloading his rig in Utah. A trucker in Michigan was wounded in the face by windshield glass when a shotgun blast hit his truck. And Melissa Sarsfield, 14, suffered a fractured skull when a brick bounced off a truck into her family's car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
...night of June 3, 1973, a Chevrolet Caprice, driven by a woman, was forced off Interstate 57 in southern Cook County, Ill., by a car carrying four men. One of them pointed a 12-gauge pump shotgun at her, ordered her to strip and then to climb through a barbed-wire fence at the side of the road. As she begged for her life, her assailant thrust the shotgun barrel into her vagina and fired. After watching her agonies for several minutes, he finished her off with a blast to the throat. Less than an hour later, the marauding motorists...
William Taylor Jr., a 15-year-old, was killed by officer Gerald Collins. The patrolman saw Taylor running from the scene of a house burglary. When the boy did not respond to the command "Freeze," Collins hit him in the back of the head with a shotgun blast. Within a week of the killing, hundreds of Blacks hit policemen with stones and attacked squad cars. The Flint police cleared Collins of any wrongdoing...
...with remarkable efficiency. Near midnight two of the bandits, dressed in ski masks and gloves, climbed onto the roof of the two-story Sentry building. Using metal-cutting tools, they sawed a 2-ft. hole in the roof and lowered themselves down a rope. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun, they gagged and handcuffed the only guard on duty. A crowbar was used to break the locks off the metal door to the basement "money room." There, some $30 million in cash and food stamps sat in bags behind a floor-to-ceiling chain-link fence. The robbers clipped through...