Augusta, GA, 1970: Six Negroes shot to death during looting and disorder in the city. A confidential police report indicates that at least five of the victims were killed by police...An eyewitness to one of the deaths said he had watched a Negro policeman and his white partner fire nine times into the back of a man suspected of looting. They did not fire warning shots or ask him to stop running said Charles A. Reid, a 38-year old businessman. April 1970: Federal jury in Boston found a policeman had used excessive force against two black soldiers from Fort Devens, and one of them required twelve stitches in his scalp; the judge awarded the soldiers 3$ in damages. Boston, 1970: A policeman shot and killed an unarmed black man, a patient in a ward in the Boston City Hospital, firing twelve shots after the black man snapped a towel at him. The chief judge of the municipal court exonerated the policeman. 1967 riots in Detroit: Three black teenagers were killed in the Algiers Motel. Three Detroit policemen and a black private guard were tried for this triple murder. The trial evidence concluded they shot two of the kids, they all were exonerated. Jackson, MS: 1970 campus of Jackson State College, a Negro College, police laid down a 28-second barrage of gunfire, using shotguns, rifles and a submachine gun. Four hundred bullets were fired and struck the girls dorms, two black students were killed. Judge declared that students who engaged in civil disobedience "must expect to be injured or killed". We could go on and on and on but this gives you a glimpse into the history of police violence against blacks.
