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It happened at 9 45 last night, police wounding two of three armed robbery suspects in a shootout at the liquor store in the 2200 block of Caravelle. One of the wounded turned out to be 20 year old Gary Less Colette, seen here on the left in

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the 1969 police photo and the alleged get away driver is 19 year old Danilo Melinda's. Let's Colette and Melinda's were two of the six so called Losi. 80 defendants acquitted in the 1969 shooting death of San Francisco policeman Joseph Project, the second wounded suspect not pictured

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here, a 20 year old Dennis cauldron. The official police version of the incident comes from captain of inspectors Mortimer McInerney, who says, based on intelligence information, a special anti robbery detail had been following the trio all evening. As the two men came out of the store

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carrying their weapons, three officers who were stationed on either side of the door ordered them to stop and drop their weapons. Uh, one of them called called Iran, turned around and pointed his weapon at one of the officers, at which time the officer fired twice with

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a shotgun, knocking Calder and down the second man. Let's go, Let jump back inside the store and around the side window and through the window, fired six times at the officers outside who returned there, his fire. When he ran out of bullets in the gun, he

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threw the gun on top of a pack of potato chips, a stack of potato chips and surrendered. The third man, Melendez, was in the automobile and another radio car unit from the bureau approach. That vehicle ordered him out. He reached underneath the seat where later was

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discovered, a sort off 22 caliber uh, rifle. And at that time, one of the officers fired a warning shot into the windshield of the vehicle. Uh, Melinda's then raised his hands and surrendered at 4 a.m. This morning, police with a search warrant raided a house in

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the 3900 block of 19th Street in search of evidence. The owner is Alice Metzger, who was active in the Losi 80 movement and is a close friend. Of the three youths arrested last night, she was joined by attorney Phil Ryan and Losi 80 organizer Al Martin

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net in charging police harassment police account relates that there was a robbery going on at that time. Do you absolutely dispute this? Do you say the police were lying or what? Whether or not there are members of Los Siete Day to me into my officers make

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no difference at all. There were three armed hold up men. Well, obviously, much of that will be developed, uh, in courts, and that's the proper form for it to be developed. It we certainly have ample evidence of the perjurious behavior police officers with respect to the

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lost. Yet whether or not the remembers the Los Siete Day to me and to my officers, make no difference at all. There were three armed hold up men well after he had fired. Yeah, they first the one subject was knocked down. Let's go. That then started

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firing at the officers who returned his fire. Finally, the car stopped on 32nd Avenue alongside a liquor store that faces on terrible street into the subject's went in there. The tailing officers observed them at gunpoint, uh, robbed the clerk of the store and forced four patrons

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were in the store to lie on their face on the floor they were setting up waiting for a time that they could pounce on on these brothers. And they found the time last night. Well, does anyone here dispute the fact that an armed parent fact that

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on armed robbery was going on to that liquor store and at the at least two of the people went into their this liquor store with mask on guns and made people lay down? I mean, how do you respond to that? Uh, that apparent reality? I think

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that apparent reality is like many apparent realities when you're dealing with law enforcement. There were certain apparent realities in May of 1969 with respect to the broad Nick death. Those apparent realities became myths. All three are charged with five counts of robbery, two counts of assault

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with intent to commit murder, two counts of felony assault on a police officer and one count of conspiracy. Mike Lee Eyewitness news at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco