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...scene at the Reflecting Pool was something akin to a Be-in on the banks of the Charles save that the preparations were more elaborate. Some 50 Negro D.C. policemen were grouped on the far side of the gathering demonstrators getting a pep talk from a white police sergeant; a Red Cross station was set up by the Army as a constant reminder that the authorities expected trouble. As the crowd grew, the entertainment started-everyone seemed to be walking around aimlessly looking for someone...
Saturday night. Watts. Like an anthill. Gaggles of black people gathered and gabbing everywhere?on sidewalks, front steps, bars, service-station lots. Sergeant Warren Larson, white, cool and 30, drives through the gloom. "Shooting at 2024½ W. Florence Avenue," barks Larson's radio. "Any unit that can handle please identify...
Larson finds the victim, a 35-year-old man, sitting on the sidewalk with a groove in his head where one bullet grazed him, and a hole in one leg. The sergeant goes up to talk to the assailant in a two-room apartment. The man is wearing socks and a T shirt. He tells Larson: "You damn right I shot him. I shot at him twice. He tried to break down the door. He had two Molotov cocktails in his hands all set to go. Hey, did I hit him? Where's he hit?" They lead the fire-bomber...
...point an unidentified officer broke ranks and attacked a picketer until he was forcibly restrained by his sergeant...
Detective Sergeant James Roscoe, who is investigating the robbery, said the thieves entered both businesses through back doors, neither of which had burglar alarms. Using heavy pinch bars and crow bars, they forced open both business's safes and the book store's cash register. Then they ransacked both stores, prying open desk drawers and searching other likely places for valuables...