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Cops, Guns and Homicides
Rubin, Sol | December 27, 1965 issue

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This article presents several cases of firearm misuses and offensive crimes by policemen during the period of serious riots in the Negro cities and towns. These riots were supposed to be a demonstration of noncooperation of the segregated population to the police. In Los Angeles, California, a police shotgun figured prominently in the arrest of a traffic violator that reportedly precipitated the riot. Guns were used freely in several days of violence that followed. Of the thirty-four persons killed, thirty-one were Negroes. During those time, the regular uses of guns by the police has raised a big dispute. Some moves have been made to control the resort to guns.

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POLICE -- Complaints against; POLICE; FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; AFRICAN Americans; CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; CRIMINAL law; UNITED States
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