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Crowd at Lenox Avenue between West 132nd and West 131st Streets
The crowd Canter saw was further north than other reports of calls urging crowds to violence on West 125th Street and on 7th and Lenox Avenues within two blocks of 125th Street. It was also the only incident for which there were details that was not linked to an arrest. What was shouted to the crowd was different from the calls made to other crowds. Those calls allegedly focused on breaking windows or attacking police. While Cantor observed this crowd breaking windows, the second phrase he reported — "Let's get what we can!" — implied looting, which is what did occur in these blocks of Lenox Avenue possibly on a larger scale than elsewhere in Harlem. The first phrase shouted at the crowd identified whites as targets; mention of whites otherwise featured only in calls focused on police. But what was shouted was quite different from the calls to "Kill the whites," which only one journalist for New York Evening Journal reported. "Down with the whites" was a threat to property and power, not life.