Page 6 Assault Charges Son '* a ZSHHjUBBBwww???a?MWMtwiijgiiwatiiiuiiJUjamewsswSitegsgivi ,iwi.in?ii?i?555 I Continued from Page 1 arrest 16 year old Wayne ' situation in hand when plain Thomas. The crowd angered clothes officers the witnesses by this began to throw rocks refered to as "Narcs" came to ?and bottles at police vehicles ' the scene and attempted to An altercation between police 99BB Sl B I k MB vpfc mm |yillBiI09i9Wii?i7s^^H *1 ?? I I DIG VALUES IH I j I Men's Long Sleeve Vatues e T? $>188 $nto ||w Each Popular Solids & Patterns s Sizes: 14'/2 To 17 < Stock 0S&Regular ' rnUP rr*W 95' Today! Each | I I Men's T^Shirts I For 33 I j Medium and Large Only I | ?- I 50% Polyester/50% Cotton I i < < V Winston-Salem Chronicle ight "W. 1A1 .t WMJll'HHi tipil""> '?<WJtrta<3JtrJ* and the crowd erupted. Two officers were hit by objects. More than 20 persons stated that after Thompson a narcotics agent was hit in the Face he cursed, dropped his night stick and fired from a :rouched position, into a :rowd of about 100 people near the of the Big ~'Q'V Lounge, striking Smoak who had just come out of the door. Witnesses also stated that rhompson fired no warning shot, fired in the opposite direction of the person who struck him and fled in a car with two other officers and Wayne Thomas, who had been irrested without checking to see if he had hit anyone. Patricia Kama ^aid Smoak :ame out of the door of the Big 'D" Lounge just as Thompson turned after being struck. She stated that Smoak stepped 'ight in front of her just as someone shouted' "he's geting ready to shoot." As the shot was fired she fell to the -ight and Smoak fell to the eft. Both lay there for a few seconds, according to Miss (ama, when the crowd started o move. "As I started to get ip my left leg was under his ihoulder when I pulled my leg rom under him 1 noticed he iidn't move, I got on my knees tnd noticed the blood on the ight side of his body. 1 ihouted he's been shot", she itated. However Chief Surratt said Monday August 18 that a letailed investigation of the listurbance had produced virtually conclusive evidence hat Smoak was shot by lomeone other than a police >fficer. Reports at that time laid that the investigation had ailed to produce clues to the tssailant's identity. The investigation indicates hat Smoak was shot by a imall caliber weapon, smaller han the weapon fired by rhompson. Thompson's gun vas at first said to be a .38 raliber revolver, later it was .aid he carried a .357 nagnum. The bullet that hit Smoak still has not been bund. The investigators report ilso indicates that: 1- the >ullet that struck Smoak Taveled from the right side of lis body to the left while, iccording to the report if rhompson's bullet had struck lim it would have traveled torn left to right. 2- The bullet that struck Smoak traveled at a downward ingle and that if Thompson k firo/1 tViof cliof I*** iuu ill VU llidl 9UVI lie WUUIU have had to be more than 30 Feet above the ground. 3- A chronilogical reconstruction of the nights events indicate that Smoak was shot two to three minutes before rhompson fired his gun. Officer Thompson though still on active duty was not ivailable for comment. August 23, 1975 I I T Afzz^tlight I' -MWBa^ * f /T '"ill it\ V. * % * ....... . A&? W^k I JMH^i - ?&_ & r The Changing Times: ? African Those who know Africa well will agree that African has long experienced her own share of crises and social unrest. What with rapid changes in government and ethnic-wars which have at various stages been as brutal as they have been unconventional. The rest of the world have not been without all kinds of unrest either. If you look back into history, you will find out that the present African experiences have been repeated over and over again in other parts of the world even in those parts that now behave as if they have been trouble free in their evolution. ? I J _ _ .1. _ ....i, i.L. f it-' _ 1 l I !j? * i nccu nui pumi oui inai me iunny ining aooui numaniiy is that we do not learn from history. If human begins learn from the history of the past there probably would not have been all the wars that man have involved himself in. If man learns ?sufficiently from history, many would have stopped offering simplistic solutions to problems that require complicated analysis. If man learns from history, African experiences would have benefited from the sad experiences that other parts of the world have gone through. Man also remembers what is pleasing and comfortable for him to remember and forgets what he wants to forget. I will not call this kind of behavior intellectual dishonesty, since that will imply that the people who remember only what they choose to remember are intellectuals in the first place. Rather, I will attribute that kind of sensitivity to a view of the world which is narrow in scope and simplistic in objectivity. I will be the first to say that all is not well with many African countries. But 1 will also be the first to say that Rhodesia and j South Africa as presently governed represent tyranny and repression at its worst. There is no justification for South Africa or Rhodesia white minority to be as brutal as they are in the name of so-called democracy. Many rulers make a vital mistake when they fail to realize that democracy starts in the stomach. The kind of democracy that a hungry man will want to talk about is probably the democracy that tells him how to put some food in his hungry stomach. No wonder that many people do not even both to vote in many countries. They think that their votes do not count. What counts for them is not so much who is in power but how are they going to solve their day to day problems of living. African people worry about the same thing other people worry about. And since all the trappings of free system is present in the basic lives of all African people, the ultimate result of African experience will be democratic. What is needed in many African countries, perhaps more than any other thing is a free flow of information. Those who rule must learn to live with criticism by the people they rule and look deeply into what is being said about them to find out how they can improve their leadership and accountability. Given what we presently know about other forms of government, African states must necessarily choose to be democratic in their systems of government. Democracy will be meaningless without the assurances that make it work: the protections of minority, the right to be heard, the right to free expression and discent and a system of justice that does not only make sure that justice is done but also shows that justice is available to all. Democratic chemistry requires that all those involved in the process fully understand the rule of the game and that freedom t becomes a right of all instead of the privilege of the few. That is why I do not consider South Africa or Rhodesia, by any stretch of imagination a democracy. Instead, they are to me and nerhans to manv. nthf?r ri#?nn1#? a tvrannv i r- ? j * ' ? v ?"v Ndubisi Egemonye

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