Incident
| Date | Oct 10, 1953 |
| Department | Buffalo Police Department |
| Address | Buffalo, NY |
Incident Description
In the morning of Oct. 10. 1953 two young workers, Norman and James Daniels, were unmerciful beat of by six club-happy Buffalo Police Officers . . . a beating which continued in two police vehicles en route to the jail. Both men were hospitalized with severe injuries.
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In The Militant
After reading a distorted account in the press, a reporter went to the home of one of victims. “You’re the first reporter that’s been here,” he told the reporter. "The public has got to do something about police brutality. We’re taught democracy, but we get just the opposite in practice. We pay taxes to support a police department and instead of protecting us they make it bad for us to walk the streets. That corner is a big intersection. Where else have Black people got to go? Restrictive covenants keep them from living anywhere else in the city. The whites should be made to realize that!” - The Militant