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Herman Young assaulted
Isaac Daniels, a twenty-nine-year-old black man was arrested and charged with throwing the rock. How Daniels came to be arrested is not clear. The only details of the case are a single sentence of description in a list of individuals who appeared in the Magistrates Court published in the Home News. Information on the earlier looting comes from the arrest and prosecution of another man, James Williams, for theft. There was likely a crowd outside Young’s store as it was in the midst of the blocks on Lenox Avenue where looting was concentrated, making it difficult to identify who threw the stone. Just how difficult would depend on the location of the arresting officers: given the amount of looting going on in the area at the time, they are unlikely to have been out front guarding the store, so would have been traveling on the street in a radio car or coming along the pavement from the police positions north at 130th St or south at 125th street. In the darkness neither perspective would necessarily have given them a clear view.
However police identified Daniels, they did not convince the jury at his trial that he threw the stone: they acquitted him.