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- FANATICISM ' Police are concerned by the naticism of the youngster} o. the source said, believ} tif Allah tells them to kil) they must obey. and that po- licemen’s bullets elther will not hit them or will not penetrate their bodies. The Black Muslims disclaim Percenters, the source said. but police do not believe them. Po- licemen point out that Mal- colm X, who set up 8 rival or- ganization to the Musiims, was killed, and another Muslim. wounded by a@ gunshot. Policemen believe that & man who calls himself “Aliah” could not continue his organ- fration in the Negro commu- muity without the tacit approv- a} of the Black Musiims Harlem residents claim to see Five Percenters every- where. . “ean tell them by the way ; they look at a store windng.” ome man said recentt’. “They're not looking fn it. like other people do; thes‘te loAking at it, ike they want, w-byeak if." ‘The group's first publicity ome when Smith was arrested ay 31 after he led a crowd -estimated at 150 person &Cross 125th St. in Harlem, allegediy with a six-foot pole. breaking gome store windows and, finally. fighting with two po- licemen who question him. Be and five of his followers lawful assembly and conspir- with possession of marijuang. ever assigned there. Police charged that Smith had declared: ‘We're going to -the cops and all the white je—women and children. tap. We're going to start. & bibod bath now and, if we doh't t our share of poverty funds, blood wil) Aaw any connection with the Five || who set up his own mosque in [' the Bronx early this year, F8s |; cursing motorists and police- |; men, deating a Negro man |- attempted to were charged with felonious assault. resisting arrest, un- acy. Smith also was charged At their arraignment two days later. an estimated 150 persons. mostly teenagers, ap- peared at Criminal Court, causing police to send 120 men to the court, the largest detall ~~ asters BAIL rw! At his arraignment, heitold dge Francis.X. O’Brien that was wrong for accusing the ghteous people” and thet the city would blow up. “You're going to cause & riot." he said Smith was held in 89.500 ball, which his followers have been unable to furnish. The group was next identi- fied by police late in July when two policemen were injured going to the assist- ance of a Harlem woman who had been molested by a group of about 30 youths. When « policemen at- tempted to arrest a youth who struck him, there war a@ general melee in which the policemen were pelted with bottles, stones, bricks, gar- bage and trash cans. Onéd of the policemen was injurtd: 17 boys, eged 14 to 18, were ‘ested. 2 } On Sept. 18. Cedric Avery, 15, who had appeared in “Porgy and Bess” at the City ; Center shortly before, was stabbed to death on e play- ground at 212 W. 129th pu. in the St. Nicholas Houses. where he lived. Police who charged Earl Green, 21, of 277 W. 127th St. in the slay- | ing said Green told them he had stabbed young Avery after he was attacked by the youth and a gang of other boys. The dead boy’s chest was covered with Muslim mefais. Two youths who said they were Five Percenters later told a Herald Tribune re- porter that young Avery was a member of their group. A former employee of she Youth Board said inforra- yon received there in late Wune indicated that ‘he ive Percenters had colh- itted the unprovoked mur- der,of Ivan Teracs, & 16- yead-old white boy, in @ Brox on June 27. ever, Assistant Distyict Attorney Irvin Goldsmith, in charge of the murder case. gaid he had never neard the up's name. The youths *ho Enifed young Terach outside 8 candy store et 510 Claremont Parkway said they were mem- bers of the “Barbarian Knights.” The two Lt-yeat-olds who described themselves to the Herald Tribune ss Five Per- centers declared that Allah (Clarence Smith) is God. ; ven if he is in jail. hd’ is at£) God.” said one of tham. “The Christians say that Christ was God, but, when fhe was dying o nthe cross. he said, ‘Father. forgive them. for they know not what they do’ This means that he was not God; his Father was. Christ was @ prophet and the aon of God. Only Allah is pd.” f ‘kthe boys denied that they wire taught karate or judo in thiir Five Percenter_couries ey said the classes were re- cted to Muslim teachings t indicated there also ‘kas intensive Black Nationals: training. le One of them had told ar- :sother Herald Tribune reporter * several weeks earlier that he - had been a member of the Blood Brothers. Mr. Wingate sald vesterda~ that the Police Department 15 anxious to “crack down” on the group. but that he hac ged them to delay this unti: @ could contact the members He told reporters after th< eeting that he did not ktio= ho they are or where tie: are located, but that he war': attempt to communicate wg:: hem. Any attempt by police tc crack down. he said. wouic Jead to “massive resistance." “Believe me, my communit' is loaded with dynamite, now.” he sald. “Those kids don't gtv= a damn, They will die—not gi of them, but enough of ther? "Y've talked to poliar. hey‘re scared, they know thr acts. HW I tell you too mucus, ’ Jil be the late Wingate.” ‘ W