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e ® Incites Acts of Violence oo SS ee ee A policy of violence has been consistently and en~. phatically espoused by the NSRP, NSRP spokesmen have made numerous incendiary statements at meetings and public rallies which have served to fan the flames of violence, For instance, Jesse Stoner. intensified tensions in Bogalusa, Louisiana, by exhorting whites to arm themselves and take to the streets during civil rights demonstrations which wracked that city in July, 1965, ; Connie Lynch was instrumental in fomenting a riot which . broke out in Baltimore, Maryland, in July, 1966, as the culmination of a series of rallies organized by him, At the second rally, on July 27, Lynch told his audience that he would lead them into a “clear-cut race riot.” At the final rally, on July 28, attended by nearly 2,000 persons, hundreds of white youths incited by Lynch and other NSRP speakers, roamed through an east Baltimore black district, overturned garbage cans, ran across lawns, shouted racial epithets, and beat up a black youth, . As a consequence of their activities, Lynch and two other NSRP officials were tried and convicted in a Maryland state court on charges of inciting to riot and conspiracy to riot and were sentenced to two years' imprisonment, Lynch was also a key figure in a shoot-out that erupted in Berea, Kentucky, on September 1, 1968, following several rallies in which Lynch was the vrincipal speaker, At a rally held on the evening of August 31, abusive, antiblack remarks uttered by Lynch over a loudspeaker were heard by blacks living nearby, Although there were no incidents that night, the seeds of violence had been sown, Unbridled antiblack, hate-type oratory was resumed - at a rally at the same site on the following afternoon, At the conclusion of the rally, a group of six or eight blacks, all armed, approached whites who were leaving the rally and were fired upon by the whites, The fire was promptly returned ‘by the blacks, In the exchange of shots, two individuals were killed: a 30-year-old white NSRP leader and a 37-year- ‘old black resident of Berea, Police immediately moved in, —— arrested 14 persons, and confiscated seven shotguns, three rifles, and four pistols, - 10 .