COMING HOME from football practice one evening last week, North London schoolboy Stafford Sampson noticed a white car slowing down on the other side or tne road. A man leant out of the window and yelled Hey you - black basta"Stafford noticed a small black object in the man's hand. He flung himself onto the pavement as he heard a loud bang. in panic, Stafford then leapt onto a passing DUs. wilist ine car SDOC ol wilna screech of brakes round the corner into Tottenham High Road.
Stafford didn't dare go back to the area tor an nour or so. wen ne got nome, nis Cecil Sampson, noticed that he was shaking and asked him what was the matter. 'I was shot at tonight", he replied.
They went to report the incident to the police, wio suggest mar i was one kids mucking about with an alr Stafford would recognise the shot of an air gun, but he believes the shot was fired from a revolver. He saw four white men in the car. Shots Desoite ine tact inat earier inet evening the police had had a similar report of shots being fired at a shop window, and a Diack vouln running rom une scene, uney continue to doubt Stafford's story. They lold a reporter that they were inclined nor to boilere nim. he prooaol mace up the story as an excuse for being late Yet the police know that other similar incidents involving a white car have taken place in the area. Cecil Sampson says: 1 got me impression mat we ponce anow wno it was.
If white youths were being fired at by black men in a car, would the police nesiale to rouna up all Dossible susnot to glistenine fries to waite not to believe the stories victims" Ponce "orotection tor Diaok people is a joke. Black people will never be protected from racist attacks by a police torce matis itseir racist.
BUL ASPINALL most non-existent. This is the fertile soil for the National Front's election campaign in stonenouses consti tuency of Walsall North.
It began last Saturday National Front demonstration and meeting of 1,000 in Bloxwich, heart of the constituency. In this town of declining industry the racist "solutions' of the NF are winning support, made all the easier by the refusal of the Trades Council to suoDor any counter-cemonstration and by the so-called left' Labour candidate David Winnick's call for strict immigration controls.
gun SATURDAY ScP: 130p pm. PALERer PARE just outside Birming200,000, much of it large Asian and West the left alwith a were able to speak to No speakers from the Anti-Racist Campaign, Asian organisations, the IMG or other other left organisations TONE: represented on that demonstration the rally.
Jimmy McCallum, the IS candidate in Walsall North, had previously been invited to speak at the AntiRacist Campaign public meeting but The anti-racist demonstration itself was organised by the InternaOCT ISIS No approaches were made by them to other organisations of the left or the Asian community in Walsall. They organised no mobilising meeting to build for the demonstration, nor any planning meeting to arrange tactics and stewwhich had already led to 14 unnecessary arrests, and which even some s described as fruitless'. Unfortunately, because of los bureaucratic control of the demonstration, there was no opportunity - either from the platform or before the demonstration itself - to discuss the
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March against the fascist NF in Walsall