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Yeah, yeah. It's been said that there are two types of police brutality, real and academic. The farmer flourishing mostly in communist countries abroad where police are considered to be oppressors and the oppressed are freedom loving but frightened people. The academic version consisting mainly of um frightened

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students confronting law enforcement officials are usually in the name of free speech. It's an american european recipe that seldom varies from campus to campus. But in this report we're going to deal with another and perhaps more dangerous form of friction to the whole ears and defense.

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Back there, we had a house, little house of wood made of wood, we built ourselves, you know, 17 year old larry jones of hunters point talks of an incident that never made news headlines june 23rd police received a call that firearms were being discharged in this

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vacant lot where he and several other use had built a playhouse. We're going to listen to the radios and stuff. And so also somebody said the police, so you know, everybody's broken runs and let's start shooting at us and things like that. So we just ran

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through the way like that, you know? And so a couple of them got caught, they told me laid out on their faces in the dirt and they laid down there and they start one boy on the hand that was walking Simmons, they stumped him on the

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head and talk about where is the gun and all that. Nobody had no gun. Police say that no shots were fired, but two handguns were recovered home early who owns and operates 100 point nightclub is like many older negroes who feel that incidents like these are

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exaggerated, that police are actually too lenient with youngsters. No, I don't go along with them because uh, conditions of the situation that exists down here that people bring it on themselves. There's no police brutality in this immediate neighborhood because sometimes I get very happy with the

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police themselves and the fact that they allow the people to do certain things that they shouldn't do, it seems like they have lost self respect. I'll give an example of what I'm talking about. Uh, sometimes they get the shooting dice out on the streets, just sitting

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down in the middle of the street sidewalk, shooting dice, people walking along, They have to walk around them, They won't even move and the language they use, why I wouldn't use it under no conditions independent to anybody. So I think overall the police are pretty understanding

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about, I know they've had too much understandable if they would get a little more serious and a little more tactful, a little more strict. Well, I think would be better off police brutality is not a way of life here in Hunter's point, just

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because a few young black say it is. But to reason only in one direction to say that it doesn't exist, that they are wrong, misled or in some other way lying to stir up trouble is to say that one has free and easy access to all

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information pertaining to both points of view. The fact is that unless an incident involving blacks and police is sensational enough to make the news, the public never hears about it. And when it does make news, it's seldom checked out any further than a police report. True

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enough, the blacks here and Hunters Points are talking among themselves about the police, but no one from downtown has been by here lately to ask them for their report. And that's why those youngsters you saw are uptight, which means upset, which means that no matter who

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is right, there is a friction here that is in bad need of the oil of understanding. This is mike, lee eyewitness news Hunters point