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WALLER v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG

No. 69-407.

245 So.2d 685 (1971)

Joseph WALLER, Jr., Petitioner, v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG, a Municipal Corporation, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied April 8, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gardner W. Beckett, of Nelson, Beckett, Nelson & Thomas, St. Petersburg, for petitioner.

Carl R. Linn, Asst. City Atty., St. Petersburg, for respondent.

MANN, Judge.

On a night in St. Petersburg when there was considerable tension between the white and black elements of the community five police officers in one station wagon were on what one of them termed a "routine patrol" when they encountered a group of black people who shouted "Pig" at them. Waller, head of a militant organization called JOMO, for Junta of Military Organizations, had an amplified megaphone, and was...

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