The Fulton County Grand Jury
continued its probe Friday into brutality charges against some Atlanta
policemen and heard testimony from three policemen who earlier claimed to have
witnessed an incident at the police station.
District Attorney Lewis R.
Slaton said the grand juryÕs investigation also will include looking into
claims of police brutality during a melee at Piedmont Park last Sunday which
resulted in a clash between hippies and policemen.
The jury will see films of
the park incident taken by three of Atlanta's television stations at their
session next Friday, Slaton said.
In addition, the district
attorney said his office has taken more than 200 statements from persons who
were at the park, but that the jury has not started hearing witnesses.
Slaton could not say when the
investigation would be completed.
T h e Community Relations
Commission voted Friday to ask the Atlanta Police Department to station two or
three policemen in the Peachtree-i4th Street hippie area on a permanent basis.
The aim would be for the
policemen to seek better relations between the police department and the
hippies.
The resolution was passed
following a discussion of last Sunday's police-hippie riot.
[Thus was opened The
Pig Pen on Peachtree near 10th. Designated so by a psychedelic
lettered sign painted on the window.]