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Initially, the killings at Kent State and the after-math follow the same pattern: disorder breaks out, deadly force is called in to quell it, people are shot at random, evidence is suppressed, and a kangaroo tribunal returns indictments against the victims while clearing the killers. This is what happened during the summer and early fall at Kent: a grand jury cleared the Guardsmen, while indicting 25 students on charges of riot, arson, and unlawful assembly. The report-including a passage which stated that the responsibility for the shootings lay with the students, faculty, and Administration of the University...
Such incidents have been written about before as well as dramatized for TV audiences. In such cases they are usually presented for thrills, or to sharpen the pace of a story. In Centurions, they are encountered as a policeman would encounter them, matter-of-factly, almost at random, and all the more real for it. Wambaugh has also portrayed cops beating suspects, insulting Negroes, bending arrest reports to satisfy courtroom requirements, or stashing liquor in their favorite call boxes. The policeman-author, who is now a burglary detective, has been admonished by L.A. Police Chief Edward M. Davis, officially, because...
...demonstration spokesman at the Media Center criticized "the use of random violence" and said he hoped there would be no trashing. A few marshals will patrol the march...
Such harsh judgments pour forth from a four-page sheet titled I.F. Stone's Bi-Weekly and from a new book, Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970 (Random House; $10), published this week. The book is a collection of Izzy Stone's articles and essays, including such intense images as President Johnson paying a final visit to Capitol Hill "for a last boast-in and sob-in among his old cronies, those aged pygmies in aspic...