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, = 1d ee ce coer rer WIBSTOR -SALEM, BOKTH CARO A RERTALLY BIST Lawrence Harrle, age 72, was feild to have been s mentally disturbed person every since his childiood. The system has many inetitutions set up through- ou Babylon for people itke Mr. Harris, They are celled insare They came - 35 carloads Of them - but one » shotgun blast : was enough 1 to make the pigs run for cover, until they could commit. thetr cowardly murder of a 72-year old man, asyiums, Mr. Harris had been admitted to one sich hellhole célied Cherry Hil, on « number of occasions , Because the type ef society that we live fn is de- signed to dchumanize Black People from the time they fall trom their mothers’ womb, we can bee the affliction that had weighed heavily upon the shoul- Gers of Mr. Harris for so Many years. The degradation of « human being in the form Laurence Harrie amerged as the product of this decades Goctety. On that marning, not fully reelizing -vhat badhappened to him, Mr, Harris acted like ‘@ Man posseskéecwith the pever tending decire to proten him- Sel againgi an aitaciking enemy and free ‘bimeelf from his tor- entors. On sumerous occesions. Mr. Merrls would walk the sree ef she community in which be lived, brandishing = rifle or a Shotgun, The people would call the pign and they would take Als weapon sway from him and THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 3 Hitt “ove THGRER’S RAIDERS SHOOT, oe moe RED EEURBER LANIRERCE HARRI eS Inne sooth aliow him to return home. Some times the people wnat knew Mr. Hafris were able to talk him in- to going back home and purting - his weapon up. Most of the time, pigs would take Mr. Harris‘ gun 6nd bring him hack home, eoed “% © aT eh ewe tk a : han, They were prodabiy hoping the brother would kill # nigger in the community during one of his moments of rage. On August 20, 1976, Lawrence- Harris defended his home against fascist ples, Between 7:3(am ani 9:00am, Thursday morning Mr. Harris and Mrs. Douglass another occupant of the bouse af 2309 Booker S_, were wound- ed along with two pigs, LA, Stoakely and RU, Licya@ Pro Senalely bir the duet and Pep SeOSktay of TS Se Sn olnked bis last ofmk, lying in - te sireet bleeding from his bead asd chest. . He ofnied to the people . “Please call we am anibulance .” The peopte ignored him because ihey couldn’ inerprat the oink of relate tw i. On the fateful morning 35 cara of pigs con- ‘werged upen the home of Mr. ‘Harris and wied @ arrest him afrer rectiving a complaint, immediately cwo pigs were shot aa they @ebproached the bouwe. The pigs tired « barrage of shots inro the boyse slong with BLACK EiAN tear gaé. Finally the gun barrie was over and the wounded were taken to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, people from the community sald that racist ambulance attendants were beat- ing Mr. Harris in the head. Pees . we Shortiy after Mr, Harris arrived at the hospial he died, The peo- ple believe that the attendants killed him, as they carried him to a hospital 9-10 miles sway from the Incident, instead of to the hospital right in the Black Colony, which ts only about a mille away. They callec him mentally dis- turbed, insane, crazy nigger; but we can only see him in the true light of reality- a madman wha naver forgot who the real enemy Is and “finally decided . to end his misery and kill his- tormentor,. Unfortunutely, only one plz was kUled and the brother is dead. But everyone should take the example act by Rr. Harris, wus had nothing Toore than 4 singse- shot 12 guage. He deah right- wously using what be ‘bad wee what be meded. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCST PIGS ‘Nelson Malicy ~ ‘Winston-Salem R..GR,