After a week, he was seldom more than half conscious, though he had surges of mental activity almost to the end. There was nowhere to go down there but he wouldn't come back up and the cops wouldn't go down - too dangerous, they claimed at the trial. He looked back once uneasily over his shoulder as he went. Chandler darn well knew this.
But remember, you have to take it slow or you will lose them. When it was over, three black men had been killed, a three-day curfew was imposed, and 250 people were arrested and later released to quiet charges of police brutality. He said good-bye to Bremmer and put his hands in his pockets as he started down the sidewalk. Mostly they are women and children, their husbands or fathers or lovers held in lockup.
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