Word: nightsticks
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...charge that news coverage of the conflict was one-sided. King Richard was fortunate that the TV cameras could not see everything. One night, a cop overtook a young girl fleeing from tear gas. Grabbing her by the hair, he hit her across the face with his nightstick, ripped off her blouse, ripped off her bra. After clubbing her over the head a few more times, the cop left her-half-naked, bleeding and unconscious in the street-as he ran on into the melee. He was smiling. Daley earlier said that "no mob will control the streets of Chicago...
Sadly, the drums and fifes of the right's march drown out the very voices that might contribute most to a conciliation of the nation's conflicts. The problems confronting America today all demand hard thinking and constructive debate. They will not be solved by the nightstick or by nostalgia for more tranquil times. Moreover, a determinedly retrogressive body politic could inflame forever the sores that merely irritate it today...
This failure of "social justice" further convinces the officer that street-corner justice dispensed by a nightstick is far more effective than existing means. After all, more often than not, the police officer grew up in an atmosphere where police night-sticks and gun butts were more powerful than courts. From personal experience he knows its effectiveness. But in the era of social awareness and middle class guilt, the policeman is harshly criticized for holding views that years ago were accepted as right or, at least, effective...
...ghetto youth, whose life has repeatedly taught him to respect only physical power, has only limited respect for the powerless policeman. Part of the answer to gang crime, then, is a reevaluation of the "be tough" policy. Putting these youths on the receiving end of police bullets or nightstick often opens their eyes to right and wrong. The hard facts of the situation require that, oftentimes, gang guns will have to be met by police guns if law and order is to prevail in ghetto streets...
...squad of infuriated cops turned on some Negro bystanders, caught one unarmed boy of about twelve and beat him. Negro officers on the whole seemed rougher than their white colleagues. Typical was one Negro patrolman, who felled a rioter and then struck him savagely on the head with his nightstick. Bleeding profusely, the man screamed: "Brother, brother, I'll kill you, brother...