Word: snipering
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...added to the confusion. Protesting the fact that they are prohibited from serving Montreal's airport, they led a crowd of several hundred to storm the garage of the Murray Hill Limousine Service Ltd., which has the lucrative franchise. Buses were overturned and set ablaze. From nearby rooftops, snipers' shots rang out. A handful of frightened Quebec provincial police, called in to help maintain order, stood by helplessly. One was shot in the back by a sniper and died...
...Ronald August, then 28, faced his test on the night of July 26, 1967, when Detroit writhed in the grip of the decade's worst ghetto riot. He was one of three policemen who, with state troopers and National Guardsmen, rushed into the Algiers Motel seeking a reported sniper. They rounded up nine young Negro men and two teen-age white prostitutes. When the lawmen left, three of the Negroes were dead. August admitted shotgunning Auburey Pollard, 19, but claimed self-defense. He was charged with first-degree murder. Last week an all-white jury took the white patrolman...
...chosen because of heavy publicity in Detroit. In the old, tree-shaded courthouse, the jury of local folk listened as 48 witnesses described the night of horror. They accused the police officers of beating and threatening the people in the motel in a desperate attempt to find a sniper who proved in the end to have been imaginary. Witnesses, some with criminal records, charged that August took Pollard into a room, that there was a shot, and that August emerged saying: "He didn't even kick." Prosecutor Avery Weiswasser contended that August and the two other cops, David Senak...
...ordering the closing of the school by 6 p.m. Friday, and police and Guardsmen stood by on the perimeter of the campus to enforce the order. Early that morning, summoned by a report that the student-union building was being looted, police moved in and arrested several before sniper fire from other campus buildings pinned them down. Then the Guard acted. Supported by tear gas delivered by helicopter and smoke spread by a light plane, 500 Guardsmen swept across the campus in a dawn assault, clearing the dormitories and rounding up more than 200 students. Neither the police...
Firemen drew sniper fire as they attempted to douse the flames, and outnumbered police watched helplessly at times as the street gangs rampaged. One man, trying to escape from his burning car, was thrown back into it by a howling mob, and died. By the time the four days of race war and civil strife had run their course, the General Hospital's morgue was so crowded that bodies were put into plastic bags and hung on ceiling hooks. Government officials, attempting to play down the extent of the disaster, insisted that the death toll was only 104. Western...