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- Title: Collective Sanctions.
- Author : Stanford Law School
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 478 KB
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INTRODUCTION Around midnight of August 13, 1906, a group of armed men, ten or twenty, ran through the town of Brownsville, Texas, firing their weapons down the streets and into buildings. (1) A police officer on horseback was shot and wounded, and a bartender was killed in the doorway of his saloon. Suspicion immediately fell upon a battalion of black soldiers that had recently been stationed at Fort Brown, on the outskirts of the city. The rioting occurred in a neighborhood adjacent to the enlisted men's barracks; empty shells collected along the rioters' route seemed to have come from Army-issue rifles, and several Brownsville townspeople claimed to have recognized the rioters as black soldiers. As for motive, racial tension between the soldiers and townspeople had been simmering since the battalion arrived. Brownsville residents had greeted the soldiers with Jim Crow restrictions and other gestures of racial hostility. In two cases, white civilians had physically assaulted soldiers, purportedly in retaliation for "disrespectful" behavior. On the day of the shootings, a soldier was accused of attempting to rape a white woman. Based on this evidence. Army investigators were quickly convinced that the rioters were members of the black battalion. (2)
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