Rioting in Dallas after boy’s death

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33290, 30 July 1973, Page 13

Rioting in Dallas after boy’s death

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) DALLAS (Texas), July 29. About 2000 demonstrators went on a rampage through the centre of Dallas yesterday, and police riot squads, rushed to the scene, were unable to quell the violence for several hours.

I Six policemen and many J of the demonstrators were II injured in running battles i over a 15-block length of J main street. I The fighting eased at dusk, ■'when the police, reinforced | to more than 2000, threw a security cordon around the • district. A protest march over the ! killing of a Mexican- • American boy by a policeman J on Tuesday quickly exploded .into violence, the demonstrators swarming into the ' city centre shouting: “Kill The pigs!" 'I The riot squads were unI able to control the mob as Jit charged down the main ■istreet, and almost every window on the route was I smashed. I Stones and bottles were (hurled through the windows of the city hall, a department store was set on fire, and firemen trying to douse the flames were attacked. When some of the crowd jbegan looting stores in the area, Police Chief Frank Dyson called out all his 2000 men, and asked for a reinforcement of 200 state police. The demonstration had been called to protest against I the shooting of Santos Rodjriguez, aged 12, as he sat

y handcuffed in a police patrol e car. s A Dallas policeman has if been indicted for murder. About 8 per cent of c, Dallas’s population of nearly d one million is Mexicana American. e; .