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Detective Charles Foley assaulted
Like most (6/9) of the officers assaulted, Foley was hit by a missile. However, the clash in which the assault occurred was the only time police and crowds clashed off a major thoroughfare, on a narrower cross street that exposed officers to objects thrown from roofs as well as the street level. So while in other cases there is some possibility police could have been hit by objects thrown at store windows they guarded, Foley was almost certainly the target of the object that injured him.
According to the hospital record of the ambulance call-out, Foley had an injured shoulder. Five newspapers listed this injury (Home News, New York Herald Tribune, New York Daily News, New York Evening Journal, New York Times). Three other papers listed instead a head injury (New York American, Daily Mirror, New York Post), the most common injury resulting from being hit by objects. According to the New York Times, Foley refused medical attention. Given that an ambulance attended him that claim is likely a misstatement of the fact that he was not taken back to Harlem Hospital, but treated at the scene.
No one was arrested for assaulting Foley, as was the case in seven of the nine assaults on police.
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- "Injured," New York Daily News, March 20, 1935, 3
- “List of Victims," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 1, 3.
- "5 dying and Scores Wounded as Race Riots in Harlem Subside," Home News, March 20, 1935 [clipping]
- “1 Dead, 7 shot, 100 Hurt as Harlem Crowds Riot over Boy, 16, and Hearse," New York Herald Tribune, March 20, 1935, 1.
- “List of Casualties in Riots,” New York Post, March 20, 1935, 6.
- “Riot’s Casualties," New York American, March 21, 1935, 2.
- "Police Shoot Into Rioters; Kill Negro in Harlem Mob. 3,000 Storm Store After Boy Knife Thief, 16, Is Reported Lynched-Several Shot - Many Felled by Stones," New York Times, March 20, 1935, 1.
- "Harlem Mob War. 1 Dies, 50 Hurt, 100 Arrested In Wild Night, Daily Mirror, March 20, 1935, 4.