Word: nightsticks
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...sheriff with the nightstick mentality, the glacial rate of voter registration, the Negroes waiting in the rain-all these symbols of disgrace in Selma, Ala., have been in headlines and news pictures for five weeks. But Selma has its assets too, and one of them is Dr. James H. Owens, a peppery, knowledgeable Negro educator who is struggling valiantly to keep the area's only Negro college alive...
...city's tough police commissioner, Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor, in his bid for mayor seemed a major triumph. It was the Negro vote that gave former Lieutenant Governor Albert Boutwell a narrow margin of victory in the April 2 election. Connor had become such a symbol of the nightstick solution to race problems that local Negroes felt certain that they could deal more successfully with Boutwell, even though he is a segregationist...
Rioting began, the film narration claims, when a student jumped the picket line and hit a policeman with his own nightstick. This alleged assault was never actually pictured on the film, Kaplan pointed out. He added that the policeman himself admitted that he was not attacked at the beginning of the riot, though he was jumped about ten minutes later...
...from police trucks set ablaze by 14,000 rioters outside. They could hear the howl of the mob as it acclaimed the martyrdom of a 22-year-old coed named Michiko Kamba, who had been trampled as the stone-throwing mob reeled backward under the charge of 4,000 nightstick-swinging policemen...
Wrong Approach. In Denver, Hotel Desk Clerk Mrs. Burnace Hadley, 49, hit an armed robber on the head with a nightstick, made a direct hit on him with a vacuum bottle as he stepped back, rapped him on the fingers with the club when he made a last grab for the hotel's money, explained to police after he fled: "He made me mad with his brashness...