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Routine police procedure provided the invitation to bloodshed. Two patrolmen investigating a parked car in a West Oakland slum were sent reeling by shotgun pellets. While they radioed for help, eight Negroes sprinted for a run-down frame house on 28th Street. For the next 90 minutes, they traded shots with police. A tear-gas cannister set a small fire. There was a cry of surrender from the dwelling, where walls and windows were splintered by more than 150 bullets. Out into a search light's glare emerged 17-year-old Bobby J. Hutton, the Panthers' treasurer. Retching...
...Bridge. In the workers' ghettos, King was sometimes ignored-or worse. He had difficulty in effectively organizing Chicago slum dwellers in 1966; militants in Harlem showered him with rotten eggs in 1965. Many radicals derided his pleas for nonviolence-though few were unmoved by his death, as was New York City's William Epton, who was convicted of conspiring to commit criminal anarchy for his part in the 1964 Harlem riots. "We don't mourn King," said Epton. "We saw him as an obstacle to the black liberation movement. We saw him as a fireman for Kennedy...
Open Arm-Twisting. He flew down to Atlanta for the funeral of Martin Luther King. When the New York state assembly rejected his cherished $6 billion slum-clearance plan, Rockefeller put on a remarkable display of arm-twisting, forcing 34 legislators to reverse their votes and give him a resounding political victory. In an amazing confession for a politician, Rocky later admitted he had passed out warnings to balky assemblymen that he would withhold such "personal favors" as jobs for their friends and his approval of their pet bills if they refused to cooperate. Said he: "Those guys have never...
...violence is rightly aimed at the terrifying anonymity of the big cities-of which 26, containing less than one-fifth of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all violent crimes. But this fear can be localized: violence is overwhelmingly a ghetto phenomenon; it is the slum dweller who suffers most and cries out for better police protection. In Atlanta, for example, the violent-crime rate in neighborhoods with incomes below $3,000 is eight times that among $9,000-income families...
...violent? Primarily youth: the fatherless Negro boy aching to prove his manliness, the school dropout taunted by TV commercials offering what he cannot have and often incited by what he has learned about the Mickey Spillane brand of violence. Adding to the slum kid's anger is all the middle-class hypocrisy about violence. "Good" people utterly delegate society's dirty work to overworked white cops, few of whom are inclined to be Boy Scouts. The middle class denounces violence but wants the police to use it, and is then shocked when hordes of young hooligans respond...