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Plain clothes officer...at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon of October 31, 1963, his attention was attracted by two men, Chilton and Terry, standing on the corner of Huron Road and Euclid Avenue.
He had never seen the two men before, and
he was unable to say precisely what first drew his eye to them.
....he testified he had been a policeman for 39 years and a detective for 35 and that
he had been assigned to patrol this vicinity of downtown Cleveland for shoplifters and pickpockets
for 30 years. He explained that
he had developed routine habits of observation over the years and that he would "stand and watch people or walk and watch people at many intervals of the day." He added: "Now, in this case when I looked over
they didn't look right to me at the time."
He testified that after observing their elaborately casual and oft-repeated reconnaissance of the store window on Huron Road, he suspected the two men of "casing a job, a stick-up," and that
he considered it his duty as a police officer to investigate further.
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Now freedomVA do your remember how you felt during the story you regailed regarding WMC and your encounter with LE?
You did engage in the ‘papers please?’ excercise didn’t you? BUT Weren’t physically grabbed, spun around and frisked out of the blue while standing immediately in front of the nice LE? NOR Were you detained and immediately arrested, ultimately sentenced to incarceration?
ALL because a nice LE felt “you didn’t look right to them!”
[sidebar..let’s see you make detective in 4 years and you spend the next 35 as a detective in the same cleveland vicinity ~ WOW]
