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...soon filled with black, acrid smoke," recalls Freedom Rider Bigelow. "We had to get out somehow-there was no chance at all of surviving inside." The waiting toughs beat up some of the Freedom Riders who emerged first, but police then fired pistols into the air, and the mob drew back. Ambulances took the Freedom Riders to the Anniston hos pital, where examinations showed that none had been seriously injured. The Freedom Riders in Bus No. 1 were finally rescued by Birmingham Negroes who heard of their plight, sent cars and brought them to Birmingham...
...ordeal of the seven Freedom Riders aboard Bus No. 2, which had trailed several miles behind the lead bus coming into Anniston. In Anniston, eight whites climbed aboard, began roughing up the Freedom Riders before cops broke up the brawl. At Birmingham's Trailways Terminal, another mob charged the bus, swinging fists, blackjacks and lengths of pipe. Although the terminal is just two blocks from Birmingham's police headquarters, the cops were conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later: "Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people...
...Democrats were responsible for the mob-wrecking of the anti-Menderes newspaper, Demokrat Izmir. (Menderes' direct complicity was not proved; yet the state prosecutor demanded the death penalty...
...Paolo suburb to hunt for "suspected arms," shot down 33 Africans at random. A government spokesman later reported the raid proudly. Fortnight ago in Luanda, a country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...
Involvement of Harvard students with the police usually doesn't go much further than a reminder by a Yard cop to "stop riding that bicyle in the Yard." Indeed the recent diploma riots proved the point. Neither the University nor the Cambridge police, unaccustomed to mob demonstrations from Harvard students, seemed quite sure how to handle the demonstration. There was little brutality or violence on either night, and the police used tear gas during the second riot largely so they wouldn't have to spend the entire evening pleading with the crowd to disperse. Police in Cambridge just...