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RE: RUMORS GF RACIAL VIOLENCE GROWING OUT OF DOUBLE HOMICIDE INVOLVING RIVAL MOTORCYCLE GROUPS, CLEVELAND, OHIO, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 were out on the night of February 27, 1968, looking fer each other, but they never met, Members of both gangs were armed. The Hell's Angels reportedly gathered at Barto's Cafe in the .: early morning hours of February 28, 1968, after their “on fruitiess search for God's Children. They beat up a Negro 5 APPROX piane player, RORERT WILLIAMS , age 30, at the Cafe but stopped when the barmaid intervened. For « time the 15 or 16 members oF the Hell's Angels were orderly, did not cause any trouble, merely played pool and drank beer, L) enen a group of the Hell's Angels gathered around ROQSEVE"" BROWN and they began to break beer bottles oyer his head, “AMES O,' TILLET attempted te intervene and was shot. PROWE ocke away fromthe group and ran behind the bar, where he was followed by one of the gang who shot him in the back, UV Seurce whe are familiar with the racial situation in the Cleveland area were contacted on February 28, 1968, and directed te ascertain whether the gang war between the Hell's Angels and God's Children would result in racial disturbances in this area because of the possible racial overtones involved, YTrese sources advised that they had determined that no wHusuaRl racial tensions existed in Cleveland because of the aboveedeserihed Incident, 43