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...asked him about them, but during the course of my visit he would talk every now and then about night trips at 100 mph in his T-shirt in the rain to places like Jacksonville and Tampa and Cocoa. One time he said he was stopped by a state trooper on the interstate. "I didn't think he could see me in the rain," said Kenny, "but I couldn't outrun him so I pulled over. I had been runnin without lights, but he was sitting by a bridge and heard this sound go by real fast, although he couldn...
...toppling. Radio Announcer Joel Cook of station WARF gasped to listeners, "We can't talk to the police department-it just blew away." In the same region, 19 persons were killed, most of them from the small town of Guin, Ala. (pop. 2,200). Reported a state trooper after the storm: "Guin just isn't there...
...extremists are not out of the woods. Mrs. Chesimard remained jailed on charges of murdering a New Jersey state trooper in a Shootout in May 1973; she is also accused of robbing another bank, in Queens, in 1971. Hilton has been accused of attempted murder in the shooting of two Housing Authority policemen in 1973. The Black Liberation Army is estimated to have at most 25 to 30 members. Several have been killed or captured in police shootouts, and the rest are under heavy surveillance...
Despite a state commission report which maintained that the Attica deaths were all the results of police fire, no indictment has been returned against any state trooper or the people who commanded them--the governor and prison officials. Instead, 60 prisoners involved in the revolt stand charged with murder and kidnapping in connection with the protest and police massacre...
...smokey bear"-the highway patrolman. The air waves virtually stutter with cries of "Breaker, break!" (the standard shortwave request to cut in on a channel) when a smokey sets up his radar. "You better get green stamps [cash] ready," warns a gruff voice on the Indiana toll road. One trooper even ticketed a trucker for urinating by the roadside. That cop's handle is now Fly Inspector. A more common offense is riding overweight, which can result hi a fine of several hundred dollars. Some gutsy drivers sneak around weigh stations on secondary roads. If nabbed, an outlaw driver...