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Roy Wilkins — Part 12

40 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Jul 28, 1970 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Roy Wilkins · 39 pages OCR'd
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at Benn "a suas re) Genin DY yt w® Both the Exrain Gonzales, 3, a north” patice soly 3 cu. Harior ¢ e.nurbances. and pallet 5 whai wit. * es were fired irom. B poute shoigen while Gonza- les watacd “ peucefuliy slang Scyms Sirees .whh kis broiher, i: Avonina, Hh recommencing , gue sagas nob be esed, - . a ne i Cit. at he perard of an i+ ¢ : yentouie ire WHO was shot in arm ales pellets came ner window in tic Ole ousting the same , - He gaid spraying “ant t tem a4 ‘ . sates went SS a Scaiieriog © on Diets, ia & Sine * gh tlast. ls a Pe _- eras “vaegien, concurring with? Frecera, BSS a he would usc. shotguns agi) “if the ‘situas,’ . sion cates sar i. MM ise Hives of your’ of-% ia A Gurger, and they , matst protec. heir owa lives. from, Sri s0TS, then: wey will ™ have snoigens.” i Both the ey yvaanager ad” : chiee expresscs concera for. “3 she sefoty of innocent persons.; = but ae: eet ‘saw any erherg ‘a aenas a ~s asters by SOMAS J. oo, . . > Qines Staff Writer... > ar -bireshot for the shetgucs, “palcer aramunition than some ctiect, * BRUE 1" bran . = Zartierd elty mana ser and tae police chick a ocr pelts. At normal, times, the raanager said the shotguns “gre under lock and key" at - police headquarters. we said several other etrepatitan cities have: _- taken to the use of shotguns “at any time’ bul that he did not foresee a similar oc currence in Hariiovd. “Who would have thevgat we'd come to this?” Freed- man asked to no one in ’ wn tee oe . . : ‘ . , . a ry . \ te. a wee . “2° disturbances. —w- bask whe connued use of ssoiguns by police . it “evavo” seo | setlons, despite criticism fron mi the Harilord County ST at wt wie ‘ar. Ace to auchorize i so ho C= ; . qi f : uncer env ciceumstin.ces,” = eo AA EESS > IFW hk lwSCG - gad Ghy Manager Etsna 7: . : Freeda, Tencdag 0 a sug. ¢ ETA oo 3 2 i gesviow iron, Coroner Irving 4 Be ( ARTRSPREANT J ON L. Arousen thal use of * | O Neg \eb ca ed dt snoizans $5 cuell rois' be - ! - ; . eisconUsued. « , “4 (Contiseed from Page 3} particular, circling his clut _ Aronson, carlioe this week, ° spoons of controlling 4 rioto yg tered desk at City Hall. * absoived the Uarlford pole $ shuation. Hartford policemen Of any Coiatidiet re espansiDhiy °"Breedman -said he would normally are armed with .38. 1 iB the Suede arn) (kite oi a authorize only” {he Use of eatiber revelvers; at tha, Afariiord police union, which tepresents some “300 oliceinen, referred to i Sonzalas’ death as “a tres ping. W ; But, said Det. “William L. Kearns, “ihe police are trying to nratect themselves and the cit.” Shotguns, Kearns said *have a psychological affect" on rioters. "] think that just the sigh? of a shotzun being raised will stop bottle throwing and sniper fire during " Kearns said, The delective sdroitted ihe + Bhotzun's spraylat eflect but ‘he, too, saw no other way to “protest the city in a riot, Meanvhile, the Gonzales’ ' estate has insiituted legal ac- ‘ tion against the city | as has a = North End woman wao claim “ted she was stightiy woundéd “from shctgun fire white sit * "ting in he v living 7 TOO, * | ye ate
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