ThefSentinel
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Thur.doy Afternoon • July 15, 1982
. serving Greater Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Police Could Have Prevented Rally Shooting, Informant Says
By MARK WRIGHT
Dawson, a former Kla
Police informant Eddie Dawson said shooting sii
yesterday that Greensboro polii
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a group of Klansmen
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volvement in the incident to reporters as The shooting erupted as
he waited to testify before a federal passed through the rally site
grand Jury, which was impaneled four ended five of the demonstra
months ago to investigate the shooting, or fatally wounded. Six
Nazis were acquitted of n
He was expected to spend most of ing charges in a 19B0 st
iththeGi
ler and riot- groups that had demonstrate!
court trial, in years past. "I've
■srd by all of the
incident. Wield-
?ith papers and
irie his first at- where the pli
*er the accu;
community center, a parade
incd by CWP leaders gave
tion. And Dawson said it was '
a Klan rally in l.im-olntim
ouble down,1' he said, adding that Nov. CWP rally.
Dawson said in answering one of
ncn to go to Greensboro. He said
paid $50 by police to report back
—my Klansmen might attend the
the police, that thc_
about where the rally was to take place, the true
as a partial explanation of why police the police who told him to "go get a copy
were not on hand when the shooting of the permit."
Dawson refused to give reporters the
"They knew" where the rally was to name of the police official who told him
take place, Dawson said, recounting a the rally site had been changed, although
visit to the police department two days he said he would tell the grand jury. The
before tho rally. As he was about to leave police, he claimed, have purposely with-
that day, Dawson said a police official held information indicating they knew
asked him, "You know the starting point where the rally was to take place,
has been changed?" n.™.™ „i„„ „ij k. ■ ■
Dawson also said he made two phone
Although posters publicizing the dem- calls the morning of Nov. 3 to Detective
onstration said the rally and march were See Police, Page 13
