Word: riotings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Similarly, a white Augusta, Ga., policeman was acquitted last week on charges of violating the civil rights of a black teen-ager killed in rioting last May. At the height of the riot, in which six blacks were killed, Private William S. Dennis fired a shotgun into a grocery store that was being looted. John W. Stokes, 19, was killed when nine pellets entered his back. The state refused to press charges, but a federal grand jury indicted Dennis, and the Justice Department attempted to prove that the force used in Stokes' death was excessive. The all-white jury...
...Presidium appealed to "civic consciousness to guarantee peace in our town." It warned that it would utilize "all means" to restore order and told militiamen to shoot to kill. Despite the tough measures-and Warsaw's initial effort to keep silent about the protests-word of the riot spread quickly throughout Poland; Gdansk itself remained in turmoil for three days...
...rage of riot, arson and disorder eventually reached a point at which the central government was forced to acknowledge it openly. Warsaw television showed a 2½-minute film segment of overturned autos and charred buildings in Gdansk-but no protesting workers. Premier Józef Cyrankiewicz appeared on TV prime time to deplore the riots and to admit "a number of dead in the teens." The toll was undoubtedly higher; the first nongovernment estimate was at least 20 killed and 700 injured. Among the dead were "officials," meaning police. Indirectly, the Premier indicated that some of the demonstrators were...
...Seattle last February, 2,000 chanting youths descended on the city's federal courthouse to protest what they regarded as the unfair conduct of U.S. District Judge Julius J. Hoffman in the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial. Prepared for the worst, Seattle police had hidden riot squads in the public library across the street. When some of the protesters foolishly hurled rocks through the court windows and splattered paint on the walls, the police swooped out of their hiding place and arrested 77 demonstrators...
...Front. Last spring FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover personally announced federal indictments against eight S.L.F. members. Though none of them had been arrested at the demonstration, all were charged with conspiring to damage federal property; five were also accused of crossing state lines with the intention of causing a riot. It was the Government's first use, since the Chicago trial, of the 1968 federal antiriot law, which civil libertarians insist is unconstitutional...