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Injured by glass (5)
Although those injured could themselves have been involved in attacks on businesses or looting, there were crowds of bystanders on street throughout the disorder, from which those that attacked stores often came. Mitchell and Young lived within a block of where they were injured; Jackson and Holderman lived further away, four and seven blocks, while Brown lived almost ten blocks away.
Acting Captain Conrad Rothengrant testified in an MCCH hearing that he believed that police officers were the intended target of some of the objects that broke windows. That scenario is more likely to have occurred in the early hours of the disorder, when police were trying to clear crowds from 125th Street and protect Kress and the stores on the block around it. Businesses damaged later, when windows were broken to enable looting, rarely had police in front of them. In James Hughes alleged assault of Detective Henry Roge, Rothengrant's scenario appears to have been reversed; the rock that struck Roge was intended to break windows in Kress' store.