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The subcommittee on crime's report (June 11, 1935)
Through that process, the MCCH produced a report that compiled the narrative of events in the Kress store and outside on 125th Street from the testimony of witnesses at its public hearings as had been its goal. However, the process of gathering testimony added additional elements to the report. Eyewitnesses to Patrolman McInerney killing Lloyd Hobbs introduced police violence. Testimony from the officer's partner and the detective who investigated the death, and the failure of the grand jury to indict McInerney, failed to justify the shooting. The anger MCCH members felt about the boy's killing was intensified by the reactions of the audiences at the hearings. Testimony about other cases of police brutality that Hays had intended to be a separate subject of investigation became intertwined with the killing of the boy. Again, the audience at the hearing intervened and reacted to emphasize that testimony. Their powerful demonstration of the scale and scope of the antagonism created by police actions and attitudes made such an impression on MCCH members that criticism of police became the most pronounced feature of their report. That criticism was far more direct than was expected of a group convened by the mayor, and well beyond what the conservative Father McCann would endorse.