Long Beach State students and supporters picket LBPD

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Sergieff, Mike

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Title supplied by cataloger.The demonstrators are protesting the alleged excessive force incident secretly recorded by an NBC-TV camera crew, in which Don Jackson, a former African American police sergeant for the city of Hawthorn was shoved through a plate glass window by a Long Beach police officer after a traffic stop.A group of about 80 protesters, mostly Long Beach State students, march in front of the Long Beach Police Department, protesting against what they claim to be rough treatment by police, especially blacks and Latinos. Photograph dated March 11, 1989.

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