Search Details

Word: jawans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Baltimore pizza parlor, a patrolman shoots and cripples JaWan McGee, a black youth, after seeing him reach for a shiny object in his pocket. It turns out to be a cigarette lighter. In Flint, Mich., an unarmed teen-ager fleeing a burglary is shot in the back by a policeman with a shotgun. In Chicago, three plainclothesmen severely beat a former mental patient who refuses to stop smoking in a subway car and resists arrest. Five hours later, he is dead. In Philadelphia, a 94-year-old black man who refuses to let utility company representatives into his apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: To Shoot or Not to Shoot | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

First | | 1 | | Last