'The Militant’
"A hand picked grand jury on Sept. 1 returned the expected decision refusing to indict New York City Police Lieutenant T.R. Gilligan for the killing of 15 year old James Powell last July. It was the killing of the negro student which precipitated the fighting between police and negroes in Harlem, A special report prepared by the legal staff of CORE assailed the clearing of Gilligan.
Grand-jury reports are usually kept secret but a special white wash report on the case was released to the press by District Attorney Frank Hogan's 9 Ace, as thegrand-jury decision was announced. This report does not even witnesses to the killing, including adult whites, who testified that the 122 pound Powell did not have a knife when the 200 pound, six foot tall Gilligan shot twice.... Grand-juries in this city are notorious as tools of the prosecutors and police departments. They are chosen, not from the ordinary Jury lists, but from special lists drawn up by the authorities.... The grand-jury action and Hogan report were immediately denounced by many conservative civil rights leaders "It shows" said Rev. Hildebrand New York NAACP president "that a Negro's life in New York has no more value than a Negro's life in Mississippi"...The 00 Z legal document challenges the Hogan report on a provocative and extremely dangerous interpretation of the law. The Hogan report states that if there is'disorderly conduct', the policeman may kill if he is resisted. "In other words comments the CORE report "a violation of law not even a crime can be transformed into a situation in which police become judge, jury and executr
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