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Roy Wilkins — Part 12
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Both the
Exrain Gonzales, 3, a north”
patice soly 3 cu.
Harior ¢ e.nurbances.
and pallet 5 whai wit. *
es were fired irom.
B poute shoigen while Gonza-
les watacd “ peucefuliy slang
Scyms Sirees .whh kis
broiher, i:
Avonina, Hh recommencing ,
gue sagas nob be esed, -
. a ne i
Cit. at he perard of an i+ ¢ :
yentouie ire WHO was shot in
arm ales pellets came
ner window in tic
Ole ousting the same ,
- He gaid
spraying
“ant
t
tem a4
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.
sates went SS a
Scaiieriog © on Diets, ia & Sine *
gh tlast. ls a Pe
_- eras
“vaegien, concurring with?
Frecera, BSS a he would usc.
shotguns agi) “if the ‘situas,’ .
sion cates sar i. MM
ise Hives of your’ of-%
ia A Gurger, and they ,
matst protec. heir owa lives.
from, Sri s0TS, then: wey will ™
have snoigens.” i
Both the ey yvaanager ad” :
chiee expresscs concera for. “3
she sefoty of innocent persons.; =
but ae: eet ‘saw any erherg
‘a
aenas
a ~s
asters by
SOMAS J. oo, .
. > Qines Staff Writer... > ar
-bireshot for the shetgucs,
“palcer aramunition than some
ctiect, *
BRUE 1"
bran
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Zartierd elty mana ser and tae police chick
a
ocr pelts.
At normal, times, the
raanager said the shotguns
“gre under lock and key" at -
police headquarters.
we said several other
etrepatitan cities have:
_- taken to the use of shotguns
“at any time’ bul that he did
not foresee a similar oc
currence in Hariiovd.
“Who would have thevgat
we'd come to this?” Freed-
man asked to no one in
’ wn tee oe . .
:
‘ .
, .
a
ry . \
te.
a wee .
“2° disturbances.
—w-
bask whe connued use of ssoiguns by police . it “evavo” seo |
setlons, despite criticism fron mi the Harilord County ST at
wt wie ‘ar. Ace to auchorize i so ho C= ; . qi f :
uncer env ciceumstin.ces,” = eo AA EESS > IFW hk lwSCG
- gad Ghy Manager Etsna 7: . :
Freeda, Tencdag 0 a sug. ¢ ETA oo 3 2 i
gesviow iron, Coroner Irving 4 Be ( ARTRSPREANT J ON
L. Arousen thal use of * | O Neg \eb ca ed dt
snoizans $5 cuell rois' be - ! - ; .
eisconUsued. « , “4 (Contiseed from Page 3} particular, circling his clut
_ Aronson, carlioe this week, ° spoons of controlling 4 rioto yg tered desk at City Hall. *
absoived the Uarlford pole $ shuation. Hartford policemen
Of any Coiatidiet re espansiDhiy °"Breedman -said he would normally are armed with .38. 1
iB the Suede arn) (kite oi a authorize only” {he Use of eatiber revelvers; at tha,
Afariiord police union, which
tepresents some “300
oliceinen, referred to i
Sonzalas’ death as “a tres
ping. W
; But, said Det. “William L.
Kearns, “ihe police are trying
to nratect themselves and the
cit.”
Shotguns, Kearns said *have
a psychological affect" on
rioters.
"] think that just the sigh?
of a shotzun being raised will
stop bottle throwing and
sniper fire during
" Kearns said,
The delective sdroitted ihe
+ Bhotzun's spraylat eflect but
‘he, too, saw no other way to
“protest the city in a riot,
Meanvhile, the Gonzales’
' estate has insiituted legal ac- ‘
tion against the city | as has a
= North End woman wao claim
“ted she was stightiy woundéd
“from shctgun fire white sit *
"ting in he v living 7 TOO, * |
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