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| | The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey, ISBN 0801857775 And Is There a Text in This Class by Stanley Fish, ISBN ... |
 | | Three fl men were killed and nine others were brutally beaten by, as John Hersey describes it in The Algiers Motel Incident, an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan state troopers, national guardsmen, and private guards". |
 | | Responding to a telephoned report of sniping, the police group invaded the Algiers Motel and interrogated ten fl men and two white women, none of whom were armed, for an hour. |
 | | Hersey spent months interviewing those involved in the incident and sorting out the ensuing court proceedings in order to demonstrate that there had in fact been no sniping and that the three fl men were murdered "for being thought to be pimps, for being considered punks, for making out with white girls... |
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