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First of all, I do want to say this. San Francisco is intensifying its crusade on crime. Within a week, 150 additional policemen will be on the street. They are not a threat to social justice or progress. I want to emphasize that they are a threat on

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Lee to the lawless. Police are going to maintain order so that San Francisco can't continue her progress in housing and jobs and in education. The 150 anti hoodlum patrol will help free the city of intimidation that divides the community and that inhibits social change. Yesterday, police

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crack down hard on boisterous black Panthers. This, too, is no threat to social change. In San Francisco, the Panthers don't represent constructive change. They don't represent the black community. They preach violence and they train in violence. That's more important. They train in violence, and we shall

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continue strong action against them when they threaten or carry out violence. A very special compliment must be paid to hundreds of black young men in the community who moved immediately when trouble erupted yesterday to cool off those who tried to escalate the disturbances and there were

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really attempt to escalate that disturbances of the young men. Those from youth from action. Young men for action. Uh, western addition youth who immediately moved in and exhorted their, uh, the members of the community simply to cool it. Those men deserve a special compliment for containing

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what might otherwise have been an ugly situation. Mr. Merrick. Mr. Mayor, do you plan to take any other What? We hope there isn't going to be trouble. There isn't any doubt that those who announced the rally exhorted people to trouble. They asked him to bring their

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guns. Any invitation to bring a gun is an exhortation to trouble, and we're gonna regard it just in that light. If people want to play with guns, they're gonna get more play than they could stand. Are you gonna allow the rally to continue? We aren't going

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to disrupt any peaceful assembly to discuss a Huey Newton case or any other case, a jury, a mixed jury mixed in the sense that it was composed of white men and black men. And I think with a black foreman who found you Huey Newton guilty. They

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wanna go behind that jury verdict. That's anybody's business and anybody wants to have a public discussion about it, that's their business to. But if there are, those who resort to gun player who encourage others to resort to gunplay will be prepared to handle that situation.