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We were very fortunate to have a good jury, and I think it's the only thing that saved thes defendants. I think the one thing the trial did demonstrate that the Police Department is a political force and power in this community. And I just hope to God

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now that this trial is concluded, that the society in this community is going to do something to stop this kind of police conduct and I venture to say is I said throughout the trial that nothing will be done because people in this community want the police

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force to be the type it is. And it's disgusting. It was an extraordinarily conscientious jury that was willing to see past the prosecution case and really get in and dig out and try to find out what the truth was. They were black. They were, uh, Latinos

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and Chicanos on that jury. They were a jury of the people when they came through for us like a jury will. My husband didn't commit suicide. He was murdered. One of those murdered him. It wasn't an accident or they would never have run. Do you think

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that there is a possibility that it might have been McGauran? No, definitely not. He loved my husband. My husband loved him. Were partners for years. Could it have been an accident? I don't believe it was an accident. Have you been sitting in the trial throughout most

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of the proceedings? I think the judicial system today is a disgrace. Judge Man has sat there and let Gary and his troops scream and holler at him at the top of their voices. There's no respect. There's no respect at all in the courtroom. What is your

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feeling about the jury in their decision? Why did they reach it? If you feel I don't know, I haven't had a chance to find out. I feel they had six days, but I can't understand why they didn't come up with at least a manslaughter. My husband's

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and Holy Cross. He didn't kill himself. E way Hi. It's times like these that more than ever, we've got you know, we've got to remember how many other brothers and sisters were rotten

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and stinking holes charged with the same type of crap that these men were charged with. Way got a free mawr. People not just these brothers, e I believe in that jury that judge suck me? Always did. But I believe in that jury. They were righteous. Uh

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huh. The wife of the officer shot in the incident, Mrs Joseph Broadneck, was upset by the verdict. Defense attorney Charles Gary, for different reasons, did not feel the verdict was a complete victory. When we have to have clients are obviously interested in innocents way have to

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spend 17.5 months in prison because the system says that's the way you have to do and be degraded right up to the minute when the verdict comes in, you have to be degraded. Even when the jury comes in and says You're not guilty, The judge still

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says, You've got to go back in the holding cell and treat him like a bunch of caged animals. When we have that kind of a system, then the law, I say, is irrelevant to the people who are involved in this. I feel very strongly about this,

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and I'm saying this that the law today is completely irrelevant to the needs of a least 60 million Americans. The yes, we feel very happy, of course, that the jury was able to come in and and equipped the defendants on the charges of murder on both

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the assault on this lying police officer. But we're not very happy about the case. We're not very happy to. The defendants received a fair trial. The jury had the conscience of the community. But if it wasn't for that jury, if it was left for that court

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and the judge and the prosecution and the police Department, they would have rotted in hell or ended up in the gas chamber we released when the man in the black cloth says he could be released. Not until then this has been the courtroom of the stormy

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four month trial of Losi ETA, the seven Chicanos accused of killing a police officer. Tonight, jubilant members of the cause that has grown out of the trial spilled into the corridors celebrating the acquittal of the six defendants, all 18 to 20 years old, cleared of the

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killing of Officer Joseph Broadneck and the attempted murder of his partner, Palma Gorn, on a mission district Street. May 1st, 1969. 1/7 defendant was never found when the not guilty verdicts were announced. An overflow crowd of sympathizers not allowed into the building broke into song on

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the street outside. This was in sharp contrast with a line of two dozen police officers who were silent and in a few cases openly hostile. The prosecution had claimed officer Broadneck was killed by one of the defendants. They didn't say which one during a scuffle when

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they were stopped by the officers as burglary suspects. The defense claimed Officer McCaughrean was shot by his partner when his gun discharged in the struggle.