Jim Elbrecht wrote:
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:10:09 -0600, "HeyBub" wrote:


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Years ago, a riot took place at a black university and a
police officer was killed. 1,100 people were arrested and charged
with capital murder (death penalty).

So vague that I have to ask for the smallest of details so I can read
about it. Can I have a year or a university- or even a decade &
state?

Jim

May 1967, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas.

This was pre-internet, so existing reports are sketchy. Below are three
mentions of the incident - there are more.

I was with the sheriff's department at the time. We were not directly
involved, but followed the events closely. What started the event was
somewhat weird: A Houston police patrol car stopped to see what a group of
students were doing huddled in a circle on the sidewalk (a major street
bisects the campus). As the two officers were getting out of their car,
someone threw a watermelon at their car, breaking its windshield! (I am NOT
making this up.) The two officers ducked back into their car and radioed for
assistance. Things just snowballed after that.

The police chief at the time, Herman Short (who, believe it or not, died
today Dec 30th), was not, er, racially sensitive. One of his quotes
(paraphrasing): "Anybody wearing a gun, stopping traffic on a public street,
and 'soliciting' donations to the Black Panthers or anything else is going
to die."

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/...s/RR/jcr2.html

http://myreader.co.uk/msg/12113450.aspx

http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/Free.../Timeline.html