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• People's Defense Committee's Statement of Purpose
• Balduck Park Affidavit
• Field Division Staff Report on Balduck Park Situation
• The Fifth Estate on Balduck Park Incident
• Complaint by Derrick Tabor on Vet Memorial Incident
• Participants in Vet Memorial Incident Tell Story
• Coleman Young to Cavanagh on Veteran's Memorial Incident
• Punishments in Veteran's Memorial Case
• 12th Precinct Community Relations Committee Event
• Detroit Police Department, Street Scene from Promotional Materials, c. 1969
• Proportion of Blacks Among New Officers Detroit Police Department
• Cavanagh to Spreen about Recruitment
• Remarks by Commissioner John F. Nichols to New Detroit, Inc.
• Investigation process of citizen complaints
• Percentage Increase of Complaints from ‘66 to ‘68
• Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Police Confrontation
  The confrontation began when two police officers attempted to issue ordinance violation tickets to two men who were selling newspapers on the sidewalk. The accounts of what happened next vary, however, a fight broke out between the officers and members of the crowd that had gathered, back-up was called for and shots were fired. The nine, 9-hour, sieges that followed involved nearly 100 police officers and resulted in four police cars being destroyed by Molotov cocktails, one police officer being wounded by shrapnel and Patrolman Edward Smith being killed by a shotgun blast to the head. 15 young defendants, seven men, and eight women, who had barricaded themselves in the Community Center were charged with murder and conspiracy to murder.