No, we’re going to have a provocative discussion. When you come on Straight Talk you don’t come for me to ask you questions that can be answered by reading your book. “I don’t like to read books my guests write. “To be a talk-show host, you have to be opinionated,” he says. And it was classic Lillard–informed, controversial, opinionated. It was classic Straight Talk, putting a spin on an issue of local and national concern that you wouldn’t normally hear anywhere else. Whites had never seen this kind of reaction from the police, but they had never gone this far to agitate the police.” They had long two-by-fours with nails hammered into them. had rubber balls with nails sticking out of them and threw them at the police. Two, three, four demonstrators kicking them. I saw a lot of policemen down, hit in the head with bricks, bleeding. Later on the program Ronald Hart, who’s now retired, said, “A lot of things that were happening to policemen they didn’t show on the news. “If that meant blacks moving across some boundary lines for racial divisions, they agreed with the police for being brutal.”
“White people had experienced the police protecting them from the ‘criminal element,'” said Saffold. “This wasn’t made clear to African-Americans, because we knew it all along,” said Lillard. “When you think about what the issue was and why it needed to be confronted head-on,” said Saffold, “it was an opportunity for some people who would generally be fragmented to see how the police could turn from being a public protector to being a brutal individual.” The Democratic convention was a clear demonstration of what happens when the military does battle with the citizenry.”
Black Americans had been talking about it from day one but couldn’t get anyone to care about it, because weren’t concerned about who the victims were. Before 1968, he said, it was “difficult to convince white Americans about how brutal police can be. Howard Saffold, now president of Positive Anti-Crime Thrust, said that the DNC police riots were illuminating only to the white community. Lillard’s Straight Talk, found two black policemen who were candid about what they’d seen as officers on the street that year. Lillard, producer and host of Channel 25’s low-budget W.L.
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