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- “FANATICISM 1 Police are concerned by the naticism of the youngsters 0. the source said. bellevi) if Allah tells them to Kilt ‘they must obey, and that po- Ucemen’s bullets elther will not Ait them or will not penetrate their bodies. ‘The Black Muslims disclaim ‘any connection with the Five Percenters, the source said. but police do not believe them. Po- Ucemen point out that Mal- colm X, who set up # rival or- ganization to the Muslims, was Killed, and another Muslim. ‘who set up his own mosque in pores BAIL At his arraignment, heitold dge Francis.X. O’Brien that was wrong for accusing the hteous people” and that the city would blow up. “You're going to cause & rtot.” he said Smith was held in 89.500 bail, which his followers have ‘been unable to furnish. ‘The group was next identi- fied by police late in July when two policemen were injured going to the sssist- , ance of a Harlem woman who had been molested by a the Bronx early this year, Was wounded br a gunshot. Policemen believe that & man who calls himself “Allah” could not continue his organ- fration in the Negro commu- nity without the tacit approv- a) of the Black Mushms Harlem residents claim to see Five Percenters every- where. . “Lean tell them by the way } they look at a store window.” one man said recenth’. “There not looking in ijt. ke other people do; thes! lepking at it, like ther want s-blieak it. soe 'The group's first publicity me when Smith was arrested jay 31 after he led @ crowd -estimated at 150 person Scross 125th 8t. in Harlem, allegediy cursing motorists and police- with a six-foot pole, bresking some store windows and, finally, fighting with two Do- Iicemen who attempted to question him. He and five of his followers were charged with felonious assault. resisting arrest, un- lawful assembly and conspir- acy. Smith also was charged «with possession of marijuans. At their arraignment two days later, an estimated 150 persons. mostly teenagers, Rp- peared at Criminal causing police to send 120 men to the court, the largest detat! ever assigned there. Police charged that Smith fhad declared: “We're going to ‘the cops and all the whlte le—women and childrin, ‘tgp. We're going to starts bpod bath now and. if we ddh’t t our share of poverty funds, ‘Dlood will Aw * men, beating a Negro man }- group of about 30 youths. When @ policemen at- tempted to arrest a youth who struck him, there war & genera} melee in which the policemen were pelted with bottles, atones, bricks, gar- bage and trash cans. Oné of the policemen was injurti: 17 boys, eged 14 to 18, wire sted. 2 ],On Bent. 18, Cedric Avery, ‘15, who bad appeared in “Porgy and Bess” at the City | Center shortly before, was stabbed to death on «@ play- ground at 212 W. 128th pu. in the St. Nicholas Houses, where he lived. Police who charged Earl Green, 21, of | 277 W. 127th &t., in the slay- ing said Green told them he had stabbed young Avery after he was attacked by the youth and @ gang of other boys. ‘The dead boy's chest was covered with Muslim medals. Two youths who said they were Five Percenters later told a Herald Tribune re- porter that young Avery was & member of their group. A former employee of 4he yyouth Board said infortia- on received there in late une indicated that the ve Percenters had colh- ted the unprovoked mur- der of Ivan Teracn, © 16- old white boy, in mie Brox on June 27. ver, Assistant Distjict Attorney Irvin Goldsmith, in charge of the murder case. said he had never heard the ‘s name. The youths *ho inifed young Terach outside & candy store at 510 Claremont Parkway said they were mem- bers of the “Barbarian Knights.” ‘The two 17-year-olds who described themselves to Herald Tribune ss Five Per- eanters declared that Allah (Clarence Smith) is God. ‘ rpven if he ts in jail, he’ ls at£) God," said one of than. “The Christians sy that Christ was God, but, when fhe © nthe cross, sald. forgive them. for they know not what they gon of God. Only Allah 15 pa.” “the boys denied that they were taught karate or judo in their Five Percenter couries sy said the classes were re- icted to Muslim teachings jt indicated there also training. One of them had told an- :sother Herald Tribune reporte> * meveral weeks earlier that he - had been a member of the Blood Brothers. ‘Mr. Wingate sald yesterda~ that the Police Department 1° anxious to “crack down” on the group, but that he hac ed them to delay this unti: je could contact the members He told reporters after the \eeting that he did not ktlow ho they are or where tine: are located, but that he wa attempt to communicate wt hem. Any attempt by police tc crack down. he said. wouic Jead to “massive resistance.” “Believe me, my communi:" is loaded with dynamite, now.” he sald. “Those kids don't give a damn, They will die—not gi fof them, but enough of ther) “rive talked to polior. ey‘re scared, they know thy ‘acts. If I tel! you too much, J'll be the Inte Wingate.” ®