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Ha, Wilson Goode. I remember him coming on television to announce that the Philly Police had dropped a "percussion device" on the house on Osage Avenue. We got a pretty decent laugh out of that one. He did correct himself at a later conference and said it was a "concussion device". He never used the word bomb. Years later little did I know that I'd meet the man. Wilson is pretty short in stature, is what I remember about standing near him. He's been protested pretty heavily, so he was always a security concern for the MOVE incident.
He gave my wife and I a copy of his book, and signed it "Merry Christmas". November is close enough, I suppose. I understand he wasn't super popular with his fellow blacks, and was still working with a lot of Frank Rizzo's people in the police department. Rizzo wouldn't have bombed the structure - he was a cop's mayor - and had previous experience with those subhumans. He knew the angles. I'm pretty sure he would have waited it out and then laughed as they languished in jail.
MOVE had chapters in Chester, PA and even D.C. I think it was sometime in 92 or 93 when a MOVE activist and his friends decided to block a busy traffic circle in NW D.C. When they didn't comply we had a big fight and several demonstrators were repeatedly subdued. I remember it well... it was kind of a bummer, after a pat down, some idiot rookie dropped a huge key chain on the hood of my cruiser and scratched it.
this is the first time I heard of this shit, the producers of this documentary tried to justify the groid behavior but it was clear blacks and whites had enough and MOVE needed to go
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[–] kuntakinte 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Ha, Wilson Goode. I remember him coming on television to announce that the Philly Police had dropped a "percussion device" on the house on Osage Avenue. We got a pretty decent laugh out of that one. He did correct himself at a later conference and said it was a "concussion device". He never used the word bomb. Years later little did I know that I'd meet the man. Wilson is pretty short in stature, is what I remember about standing near him. He's been protested pretty heavily, so he was always a security concern for the MOVE incident.
He gave my wife and I a copy of his book, and signed it "Merry Christmas". November is close enough, I suppose. I understand he wasn't super popular with his fellow blacks, and was still working with a lot of Frank Rizzo's people in the police department. Rizzo wouldn't have bombed the structure - he was a cop's mayor - and had previous experience with those subhumans. He knew the angles. I'm pretty sure he would have waited it out and then laughed as they languished in jail.
MOVE had chapters in Chester, PA and even D.C. I think it was sometime in 92 or 93 when a MOVE activist and his friends decided to block a busy traffic circle in NW D.C. When they didn't comply we had a big fight and several demonstrators were repeatedly subdued. I remember it well... it was kind of a bummer, after a pat down, some idiot rookie dropped a huge key chain on the hood of my cruiser and scratched it.
That was really upsetting. Wilson Goode on the MOVE incident
Merry Christmas
[–] BirthOfANation [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
this is the first time I heard of this shit, the producers of this documentary tried to justify the groid behavior but it was clear blacks and whites had enough and MOVE needed to go
[–] kuntakinte 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I guess they left out the part where MOVE members carried out hits on people that had left their organization as well, didn't they?