Riot After Man Shot In Chicago

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31128, 3 August 1966, Page 17

Riot After Man Shot In Chicago

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

CHICAGO, August 2.

Groups of youths hurled rocks and bottles at police and a store was set on fire with a Molotov cocktail tonight after police shot dead a Puerto Rican man.

The rocks and bottles were thrown at police attempting to cordon off a section of a predominantly Puerto Rican suburb on the north-west side of the city. The area still bears the scars of three nights of rioting last June. Sporadic shooting was heard in the area as police tried to quell the disturbance.

The dead man was Ismail Le Boy, aged 40, a father of eight. He was killed during an exchange of shots through an apartment door. Police said they went to the Mode of flats where Mr Le Boy lived to calm a domestic disturbance.

They said a shot was fired through the door and when they pushed it open Mr le Boy threatened them with a pistol. In Perth Amboy, New Jersey, gangs of rock-throwing Puerto Rican youths filled the streets tonight for the second night in a row, injuring a policeman and a woman onlooker.

In Providence, Rhode Island, police were pelted with stones and bottles tonight as they broke up a disturbance of some 100 young Negroes after a civil rights rally.

In Chicago, leaders of civil rights demonstrators mapped strategy tonight and planned to return later this week to a white suburb where rioting white residents broke up their protest match yesterday.

The demonstration ended in a clash that injured 60 and left some 300 cars burned or smashed.