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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators used bicycle chains to shut the double set of exit doors to the building. Four or five policemen who were stationed inside tried unsuccessfully to cut the chains and called for reinforcements. In the next hour and a half over 30 policemen entered the building through a window, while a large crowd gathered outside. When Welfare Director Cronin arrived after hearing that welfare workers were trapped inside the building, the protestors insisted on speaking to him over loudspeakers through a window. He refused...
While the police were clearing the building one of the mothers shouted out of a window, "They're beating our people in here." At that point the crowd outside rushed the police, who used billy clubs to push them to the other side of Blue Hill Ave., where they broke windows and threw bricks and bottles. For the rest of the night the crowd faced police along a fifteen-block strip of Blue Hill Ave. Intermittently groups of Negroes charged across the street under a screen of debris thrown at the police. By early morning there were 1000 police, armed...
...face of the large crowd at Grove Hall. Hundreds of people, attracted by the arriving squad cars, had gathered in front of the welfare office before the police began to move. According to men who were outside, the crowd was agitated but peaceful until a mother shouted out the window about the beatings inside. Pinney and John M. Mendeloff '68, who was also inside, reported vicious beatings as the police attempted to clear the building. "The cops suddenly came out wanting to fight, swinging and cursing at the Negroes," they said. One teenager was thrown through a window...
...episodes of the serial so far, he has yet to solve a crime. Just when emergency strikes, the "fantastic feathered fighter" finds that his chicken suit has been lost by the cleaners or the zipper is stuck. During one flap, he accidentally glided through a closed window. "How do you do?" was his greeting. "I'm the wonderful white-winged warrior, and I think I'm bleeding to death." Of course, the police commissioner shrugs away the fact that since the coming of Chickenman, the "level of sin, debauchery and gambling" has increased. Good, he says...
Shoppers and store workers clawed their way to escalators and exits, blinded by the thickening smoke. Many were trampled in the stampede. Some, like Mme. Seydel, reached windows and managed to escape without serious injury. Others found windows jammed or locked and had to smash through to exterior ledges and balconies; still others clambered to neighboring rooftops. Brussels firemen threaded through the narrow old streets within ten minutes of the first alarm, but helplessly watched many people jump or burn to death before they could raise their ladders or spread their nets. "One man was transformed into a living torch...