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...doubt. More fire engines were coming south along Beacon St., accompanied by police cars. As a patrol car inched through the crowd toward the fire, one marcher produced a bowling ball from beneath his coat and heaved it through a side window in the front seat. The cop jumped out, but his riot helmet, improperly fastened, flew off his head and rolled into the gutter. By the time he had retrieved it, the crowd had flowed through the trucks and the vandal was out of sight...
Beverly Hills Police Chief Joseph Kimble is no one's stereotype of a cop. "I don't buy the Black Panthers," he says, "but at the same time, I feel that if the police spent more time denouncing racism, they would be a lot more effective." It was Kimble who supervised the extraordinarily lenient security forces at Woodstock last year. He even writes verse: "In the silence of the dawn / When attention of the world is gone, / I drop my shield so tears can speak. / Pardon me for being weak...
However, there is disagreement at CLAO about this point. "This day by day plodding along is greatly underrated." Newman says. "In a way I see law reform as a cop-out. You're going to the courts where the problems are often not the worst...
...wealthy East Side neighborhood is often stopped by policemen while walking at night and asked where he is going. Another black homeowner in Scarsdale recalls the night he accidentally set off his own burglar alarm and was afraid to go outside to turn it off. "Some rookie cop might have come to check, seen this soul brother and let fly. Blam! One gone!" A black teen-ager driving an expensive car is far more likely to be halted and quizzed than his white counterpart...
Trailed by Alfred, Sam comes running down to borrow a box of matches to light the incense and the candles. He hurries back up, but Alfred remains with the policeman. After a bit he tries to hump the cop's leg and is given a kick and a lecture...