Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police then poured out into Massachusetts Ave. and toward the Common, firing large amounts of tear...
According to Mississippi Governor John Bell Williams, the 360 uniformed troopers of the Mississippi highway safety patrol are "professional officers-not hotheads." Yet last May, when they helped local police handle student demonstrations at predominantly black Jackson State College, the troopers did not bother to bring tear gas. Instead, they loaded their shotguns with 00 shot, the largest available. When the dust settled, a laconic voice came over the patrol's radio: "Better send an ambulance-we've got a few niggers down over here...
Shortly after 11:30, about 60 police in riot gear began moving toward the group in the street, firing several volleys of tear gas. "They came out ofnowhere." one youth said later. The kids ran across the Common, trashed and looted two stores to the north, and burned a car before dispersing...
...from the start that their men fired in frantic self-defense against snipers and against a tightening noose of students throwing rocks and bottles. Not so, according to the FBI reconstruction of what really took place: the Guardsmen were not surrounded by demonstrators, they had not run out of tear gas, and they could have kept the situation under control without firing into the crowd...
...BOMBS: To top off a bad week, a young man later identified as a construction worker from Northern Ireland stood up in the visitors' gallery of the House of Commons, shouted something about Belfast, where British troops have used tear gas to quell rioting Catholics and Protestants, and hurled two canisters onto the floor. The bombs rolled and bounced around, spewing dense clouds of tear gas and setting off two small fires. Members and visitors dashed retching from the floor, strewing papers right and left. Afterward, nobody seemed able to agree on just what the man had said. Some...