Word: snipering
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...following evening a fire truck responding to a trash fire on the campus was stoned. One unsubstantiated report said that a sniper had shot at the truck. Around midnight, police received complaints that a crowd of blacks at the campus was stoning passing cars. When 75 city and state highway policemen marched up in front of the modern glass-and-brick Alexander Hall, a women's dormitory, they were met by a crowd of 100 jeering men throwing rocks and bottles...
...Sniper Fire. Police at first stoutly maintained that they had evidence of sniper fire, but later refused all comment. Whether they had evidence or not, the officers went far beyond simple crowd control or self-defense. Even though rocks and bottles were thrown at the officers, this provided no sound reason for the wholesale raking of a crowd with gunfire. The police apparently had come armed only for shooting and had no less lethal equipment. No tear gas was used; there was no warning given to the crowd. Their shotguns were loaded with deadly 00 buckshot rather than antiriot birdshot...
...murder-and all its paraphernalia, guns and knives and rope-stays in style year after year. Remember Leopold and Loeb, Lizzie Borden, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Lindberg kidnapping, Ma Barker, Bonnie and Clyde and Theodore Dreiser's American Tragedy? If not, how about Texas sniper Charles Whitman, Chicago nurse murderer Richard Speck, the Boston Strangler and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
General Canterbury and his superior, Ohio Adjutant General Sylvester Del Corso, at first sought refuge in a flimsy excuse for uncontrolled gunfire. They said that their men had been fired upon by a sniper. By the end of the week, even Del Corso conceded that there was no evidence of any such attack...
Violence erupted late Monday after a large group of blacks had marched peacefully through downtown Augusta. Later, roving bands began smashing store windows and setting fires. After looting and sniper fire reportedly began. Governor Lester Maddox ordered National Guardsmen and state police into the city...