The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 29, 1972, Image 4

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    THE BATTALION
Tear Gas Canister Touched Off Southern University Incident
BATON ROUGE, La. OP) —
A tear gas canister tossed by a
state policeman into a crowd of
blacks sitting outside Southern
University’s administration build
ing touched off the wild melee
Nov. 16 that left two students
dead, an all-black committee of
inquiry was told Tuesday.
“The first that I noticed, the
state police came closer to the
administration building, and they
were seven to five feet from the
first of the students that were
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sitting down.
“One of the state police offi
cers took a tear gas canister and
he lobbed it underhanded into
the crowd of brothers that was
sitting there. I grabbed it and I
flung it out away from the stu
dents.”
Within seconds, Hershell Har
ris told the panel, the choking,
blinding gas had scattered the
students.
Harris, who said he was out
side the building when the vio
lence exploded, delivered his eye
witness account as the Black
People’s Committee of Inquiry
examined witnesses for the sec
ond day. The panel met at a
downtown labor hall.
Across town, Southern’s 65-
year-old president, Dr. G. Leon
Netterville, went behind closed
doors to testify before a biracial
investigating committee set up
by Louisiana Atty. Gen. William
Custe.
Netterville has been invited to
testify before the all-black com
mittee, but leaders said they had
received no reply.
Guste’s grand jury-style inves
tigation, the only state-sponsor
ed inquiry with any legal force,
was also meeting for the second
day.
Focal point for the investiga
tions is the half-hour-long clash
which climaxed three weeks of
student protests at the nation’s
largest black university.
Denver A. Smith, 20, of New
Roads, La., and Leonard Douglas
Brown, 20, of Gilbert, La., were
sprayed with buckshot and died
of head wounds.
At Southern’s smaller New
Orleans branch, all was quiet.
The school was reopened Monday
after a 10-day break, but the
class boycott which had plagued
the school for weeks appeared
effective.
Harris’ description of the ini
tial clash conflicts with evidence
Gov. Edwin Edwards and other
high-ranking officials claim tlie;
have. Edwards has
films show the first tear gjj
came from the students.
Harris identified himself ;
leader of Students United,
group behind the demands
more of a voice in the adminii
tration of the school and for Nf
terville’s ouster.
Another Students United lead,
er, Nathan Howard, deliver^
testimony which likewise con.
flicted with official accounts.
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