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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

James Pringle arrested

Around 11.15 PM, officer was watching a crowd of 25-30 people at West 123rd Street and 7th Avenue when he allegedly heard James Pringle shout to the group, “Let's go cross the way and scale rocks at the cops, they are coming down our side of the street.”  The typed affidavit then records that the officer arrested Pringle, and found a rock in his right hip pocket. He also implicitly held Pringle responsible for what the other members of the crowd did after his arrest, "acts of force and violence committed to several persons and the property of others, in said vicinity." [check other events]. A handwritten note below the typewritten charge presents a different narrative, in which Pringle led others in the crows to smash windows of businesses at 2092, 2093 and 2094 7th Avenue. [check other events - also what is rest of handwriting]. The handwritten account fits better with the offense of inciting a crowd?

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