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- `Nobody showed up' for
George
PETER EDWARDS, STAFF REPORTER,
Toronto Star, Feb. 8, 2005
FOREST, ONT.-Native activist
Anthony (Dudley) George lay dying late at night in a car with
a flat tire outside a farmhouse, as desperate relatives waited
for an ambulance that never arrived, a public inquiry heard.
"Nobody showed up,"
farmer Hendrikus (Hank) Venns told the public inquiry into George's
death yesterday, describing what happened after he called 911
at 11:26 p.m. on Sept. 6, 1995.
"Nobody."
George's sister Carolyn (Cully)
and brother Pierre pounded on Venns' farmhouse door on Nauvoo
Rd., about 15 minutes after George was shot by an Ontario Provincial
Police sniper at Ipperwash Provincial Park during a burial ground
protest.
"I requested an ambulance
as soon as possible," Venns, 50, testified at the public
inquiry into George's death before Mr. Justice Sidney Linden.
"They didn't sound too
excited," he said. "Twenty-five minutes after the George
family members arrived at his door, the ambulance still hadn't
arrived and the car carrying George was gone, Venns testified.
A transcript involving conversations
between ambulance workers and police indicated that ambulances
were sent to the farmhouse, but apparently turned back after
George left the farmhouse in the car driven by his brother.
In the transcript, an OPP officer
said, "Okay, so you've got ambulances going or ambulance
going?"
"We've got one on the
way, yeah, and two more coming in from London area," another
man replies.
At the inquiry yesterday, Venns
said that an operator asked him if the wounded man or anyone
with him had a gun. "I thought it was strange to ask that
question," Venns testified. "I said they didn't have
guns."
Venns said he expected an ambulance
to arrive in 10 minutes or so, like when he called for help for
a farmhand with a broken arm.
In earlier testimony, Carolyn
George praised Venns for trying to help.
The inquiry continues.
No one came to help dying George
JOHN MINER, Free Press Reporter,
Feb. 8, 2005
FOREST -- For nearly 25 frantic
minutes, a Lambton County farmer tried in vain to summon an ambulance
for native protester Dudley George, who lay dying in his yard,
an inquiry heard yesterday. Hank Veens said he expected an ambulance
would arrive within 10 minutes of his 911 call, but neither ambulance
nor police came that night, despite repeated assurances that
they were on their way.
"Nobody showed up, nobody,"
Veens said.
"I think it is a serious
thing. If someone shows up on your doorstep shot, it should be
followed up."
When a farm hand had a broken
arm on an earlier occasion, the ambulance arrived about 10 minutes
after a 911 call, he said.
Veens placed the 911 call after
George's siblings, Carolyn and Pierre George, banged on his door
and asked for help. The car they were driving had a flat tire.
It was about 15 minutes after Dudley had been shot by police.
The tape of Veens's 911 call
was played yesterday at the judicial inquiry into George's shooting.
Veens said Carolyn George kept
asking him if an ambulance was on the way.
But in the 25 minutes he was
on the phone, he got the feeling help wasn't going to be sent,
Veens said.
"My impression of things
is they were just going through the motions," he said. "They
didn't sound too excited."
Looking back, he said, "I
wish I had just threw them in the van and went."
While Veens was still on the
phone with 911, Pierre and Carolyn drove off to take Dudley to
hospital in Strathroy.
At police request, the 911
operator called back to ask if Pierre and Carolyn were armed.
"They had no firearms,"
Veens told the operator.
It was a few days before police
visited his farm to fill out a report, Veens said.
Veens said he asked the officer
why an ambulance hadn't come. The reply was: "Oh, must have
been busy," he said.
The issue of ambulance response
to calls from natives that night has been raised several times
at the inquiry.
Other native witnesses have
said police told them at the time the ambulances were for police
officers, not natives.
TRANSCRIPT OF HANK VEENS'S
911 CALL
In the transcript released
yesterday, an ambulance was dispatched to Veens's farm near Arkona
after some initial confusion over where the call originated.
The 911 operator then tells police of the call:
OPP: The guy has a gunshot
wound to the chest?
911 Operator: That's right.
OPP: OK, so you've got ambulances
going or ambulance going?
911 Operator: We've got one
on the way, yah, and two more coming in from London area.
OPP: OK.
911 Operator: All right, bye.
OPP: All right, this must be
where the other guy disappeared to.
Later, Veens tells the operator
that Pierre, Carolyn and a dying Dudley George have left for
the hospital. The ambulance bound for the farm is told to keep
going, but a few minutes later, the call is cancelled.
George told of death
threats: Sister thought police `joking'
She was
detained in hospital
PETER EDWARDS, STAFF REPORTER,
Feb. 4, 2005
Forest, Ont.-A sister of slain
native activist Anthony (Dudley) George wiped away tears when
she told of a chilling conversation she had with him, a day before
he was shot dead by an Ontario Provincial Police officer during
a land claims dispute.
"He came and he told me
the police said they were going to get him first," Carolyn
(Cully) George, 54, told the public inquiry before Mr. Justice
Sidney Linden of the conversation with her brother on Sept. 5,
1995.
She paused to gain her composure,
and then continued: "The words that came out of my mouth
was, `It's a good day to die.'"
She said neither of them wanted
to believe the threat.
"Were you concerned about
his safety?" inquiry lawyer Susan Vella asked.
"I didn't really think
they'd do that," Carolyn George replied.
"I think he was hoping
that they were just joking around. I didn't really take it serious."
She also described a horrific
drive to Strathroy General hospital, with her brother Pierre,
as well as a teenaged boy, and her dying brother Dudley.
Their car had a flat tire and
they stopped at a farmhouse to beg people there to call for help.
The man who answered the farmhouse
door was quick to oblige and call for an ambulance, but after
five minutes of waiting for an emergency vehicle, they decided
to drive on, with the flat tire, she said.
No police or ambulance came
to help them on their 45-minute drive to hospital, she said,
and she was thrown to the pavement and handcuffed when they arrived
at hospital.
"They (police) grabbed
my arms and put them behind my back," she testified.
"Put me down on the ground.
My face went through some shrubs ... I was trying to ask them
to let me see my brother."
She said she was locked up
alone, and told she was being charged with attempted murder,
although she was released the next day without charges.
While in jail, she said she
worried she would never get out alive, and then she saw a cedar
leaf on the cell floor, and felt it was a sign from God, as cedar
is a sacred native medicine.
"I had the protection
of the Creator," she testified. "The Creator gave me
that sign."
The shooting came after Stoney
Point natives occupied the park adjoining the military base on
Lake Huron on Sept. 4, 1995, saying they were protecting sacred
burial grounds.
Seven police officers opened
fire during the late-night confrontation in which Dudley George
was killed.
A judge ruled in April 1997
that Dudley George was unarmed. Acting Sergeant Kenneth Deane
of the OPP was found guilty of criminal negligence causing death
for the shooting.
- George 'just smiled'
Victim of sniper calm after shooting
- By CP, January 13, 2005
FOREST, Ont. -- Dudley George
just smiled as friends and family rushed him to a hospital after
he was shot by a police sniper, a then 14-year-old boy told the
Ipperwash inquiry yesterday. James Thomas Cousins testified George
never talked during the frantic trip, just smiled and responded
to his calls to keep squeezing his hand.
In the Strathroy hospital parking
lot George's breathing was starting to slow and his eyes were
closing.
But help for George didn't
come immediately because Ontario Provincial Police officers arrested
Cousins and two other people in the car, and hospital staff were
held behind a locked door, the inquiry heard.
Cousins was never charged with
any offence.
Yesterday was the first time
Cousins has talked openly about George's death on Sept. 6, 1995,
following the takeover of Ipperwash Provincial Park by natives
who claimed the park contained an aboriginal burial ground.
Cousins admitted he was traumatized
by the events but maintained his memory was clear.
He vividly recalled the blood
on George's chest right below his heart, saying his arm became
covered in blood when he placed it on George's back.
The inquiry continues today.
George family wants Ipperwash
inquiry moved
CBC News, January 3, 2005
FOREST, ONT. - A lawyer representing
the family of Dudley George, who was shot to death during a 1995
confrontation with police over native land claims, wants public
inquiry hearings to move to Toronto.
Murray Klippenstein said the
native protester's family is not happy at the lack of media coverage
the inquiry is getting at its current location in the town of
Forest, Ont., near the scene of George's death at Ipperwash Provincial
Park.
"It's being held near
Ipperwash Park, which is important, but it should also be held
near Queen's Park, which is the other park that has a critical
role, in their view, in this matter," Klippenstein said.
The George family has always
maintained that provincial government officials or politicians
authorized police to use force as they moved in on unarmed protesters
blockading Ipperwash Provincial Park in early September 1995.
The inquiry's public hearings
are set to resume next week in Forest, about 250 kilometres west
of Toronto.
Klippenstein said moving the
inquiry to Toronto would make it easier for major media outlets
headquartered there to cover testimony.
It was important for people
living near Ipperwash to have a chance to attend the hearings,
Klippenstein said, but the family believes they've now had that
opportunity.
Derry Millar, the lead counsel
for the inquiry, said a change of venue is not impossible.
"Anyone can bring a motion
before the commissioner to ask that he move the hearings to some
other place, including Toronto, and then the commissioner would
have to make a decision," he said.
Until that happens, Millar
said, the inquiry will continue to operate in Forest.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty
announced the inquiry on Nov. 12, 2003, just days after taking
office.
Public hearings began in July
2004 and are scheduled to run until next fall.
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- Ipperwash beating
haunts Stony Point native
Badly injured
on night of fatal shooting
Tried to
speak to OPP riot officers
PETER EDWARDS, STAFF REPORTER,
Dec. 8, 2004.
FOREST-A former band councillor
broke down in tears as he told how he was haunted by the night
he was clubbed unconscious by OPP officers and Anthony (Dudley)
George was shot to death by a police sniper.
"We lost a brother, we
lost a friend, and I was involved in it," Cecil Bernard
(Slippery) George, 50, of the Kettle and Stony Point band, told
Justice Sidney Linden yesterday at the public inquiry into George's
Sept. 6, 1995 death.
Commission lawyer Derry Millar
asked George, who was not related to Dudley, three times if he
wanted to take a break to regain his composure. Each time he
declined and pressed on with his emotional testimony.
"Sam wanted to know what
happened and I have to tell him the truth," he said, looking
at Dudley George's older brother Sam, who sat about six metres
away in the inquiry hall.
George said he feared something
awful would happen after Stoney Point natives occupied Ipperwash
Provincial Park on Lake Huron near Sarnia at the end of the 1995
tourist season, saying they were protecting a sacred burial ground.
He testified Ontario Provincial
Police soon set up roadblocks and he noticed some officers with
assault rifles.
"The Indians had sticks
and stones and they had guns," George testified.
He said he tried to speak with
riot officers as they marched on the park late that night, but
they wouldn't listen to him and sped up instead.
"I said if they would
continue to do this, then they would have no respect and no honour.
I told them not to do this ... I wanted to run. I had nowhere
to go."
Shortly afterward, he swung
a steel pipe at the riot squad officers, who were lined up in
two rows in a parking lot outside the park.
He tried to protect his face
as he was repeatedly struck on his back in the sand, surrounded
by police, he said.
"I told them, `I give
up.' But they were afraid of me. They were afraid of the Indian
because they don't understand him ... I could see strange stars.
They were colourful stars."
He said he lost consciousness.
When he regained it, he was being dragged by his hair to a vehicle.
The inquiry was shown photos
taken by the police watchdog unit, the Special Investigations
Unit, the day after the beating. George suffered 28 blunt force
trauma wounds to his face, chest and groin and his heart stopped
temporarily after the beating.
"The biggest injury that
I had was inside me - deep inside me," he testified.
"I hurt all over but not
as much as I hurt from the biggest injury: emotional."
George was originally charged
with assault with a weapon, assaulting a police officer and mischief
but was acquitted on all charges.
He said that while in custody,
he told police he was sorry if anyone was hurt that night.
"And why did you say that
to police?" Millar asked.
"To let them know that
we're not really the type of people that some picture us to be,"
he replied.
"Did anyone, at any time,
ever apologize to you for the injuries that you suffered?"
the inquiry lawyer continued.
"No," George replied.
- The inquiry continues.
-
-
- "I knew they
were coming'
- Cecil Bernard George
expected to die at the Ipperwash occupation.
JOHN MINER, Free Press Reporter,
December 8, 2004
FOREST -- Native witness Cecil
Bernard George broke down in tears yesterday as he described
futile attempts to convince riot police to put away their weapons
and stop their march on occupiers of Ipperwash Provincial Park.
"I told them, if you want a fight, deal with me, leave these
people alone" George, 50, said.
The judicial inquiry into the
killing of native protester Dudley George was shown graphic photographs
of injuries the former Kettle Point band councillor suffered
when he was beaten by the provincial police riot squad.
His injuries, outlined by lead
commission counsel Derry Millar, included cuts and bruises on
his head, chest, back, arms and legs. He still has scars on his
face.
George, commonly known by his
nickname, Slippery, wasn't part of the 1995 occupation of the
provincial park.
On the night of the confrontation
between police and natives that ended with the shooting of protester
Dudley George, Cecil George said he went to the park because
he was concerned about the safety of his sister and brother,
who were part of the group occupying the park.
George testified he handed
out two-way radios to the park occupiers and then headed down
the road in the night toward an area where he had seen a police
buildup.
Part way there, he heard footsteps
on the road and shortly could see by the moonlight officers with
shields approaching in formation.
George testified he decided
he had to try to talk to them. "The first thing I told them
was to put their guns away."
Instead of replying, the police
started moving faster.
Retreating into the park, George
said he watched as riot police rushed to the fence and tried
to hit the natives on the other side with batons.
Sobbing occasionally, George
said he struggled for years to understand what he did next. "At
that point I had nothing left inside of me but anger for what
they did," he said. "No one would come out to talk
to us."
The band councillor said he
then picked up a metal pipe and approached the double line of
riot police. He heard someone give the command to the riot police:
"Punch-out."
"I knew they were coming
to punch me and everyone else that were in the way. They had
no feelings. They were afraid of the Indians. The Indians had
sticks and stones and they had guns."
George said he swung his metal
pipe at one officer and heard a sound like glass breaking. Then
it was like he was in a nightmare, he said.
"I seen shadows around
me, hitting at me, trying to kill me. That was my dream that
they were going to kill me," he said.
George said he later learned
he was taken to Strathroy General Hospital, where he was treated
two days before being taken to jail in Sarnia.
He was initially told he was
being charged with attempted murder. Later he was charged with
assault with a weapon, assaulting a police officer and mischief.
All the charges were later dismissed.
- Cross examination of George
is scheduled to continue this morning.
Inquiry won't see L.A. video
- The George family's
lawyer drops a bid to show the Rodney King beating.
JOHN MINER, Free Press Reporter
, December 7, 2004
FOREST -- Lawyers for the family
of Dudley George have abandoned their controversial attempt to
play a video at the Ipperwash inquiry of the brutal beating of
Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers in 1991 Lawyer Andrew
Orkin said it had become apparent on Friday and over the weekend
that the move was going to be met with fierce opposition from
a number of parties.
"We simply decided to
sidestep the fight," Orkin said yesterday.
The George family lawyers had
said they wanted to play the video to show the nature and severity
of the Ontario Provincial Police beating of Cecil Bernard George,
a Kettle and Stoney Point band councillor.
Orkin said the legal team still
felt it would have been valuable for the inquiry to see the Rodney
King video, but it wasn't worth the time it would have taken
in arguments at the inquiry.
One of the groups expected
to vigorously object to the video was the Ontario Provincial
Police Association.
Its lawyer, Ian Roland, last
week suggested playing the video at the inquiry would be an extreme
example of "inappropriate stereotyping."
Roland said allowing the video
to be played would throw the inquiry wide open to all kinds of
evidence being introduced that had no connection to the 1995
events at Ipperwash Provincial Park.
Earlier witnesses at the judicial
inquiry have testified that the beating of Cecil Bernard George,
50, triggered a wild fight between police and natives that ended
with the shooting of Dudley George by a police officer.
The police beating, according
to testimony at subsequent criminal trials, almost killed Cecil
George, who is also known as Slippery.
Yesterday, Cecil George, no
relation to Dudley, testified how he had defused an earlier standoff
between OPP and a native on the Kettle Point reserve.
George said relatives of the
man called him because they were afraid he would be shot by police.
Driving on his snowmobile past
police roadblocks where officers pointed their guns at him and
tried to get him to stop, George recounted how he entered the
house and spoke to the man.
"He told me they were
not going to take him alive. I told him that wasn't the way to
think," he said.
He eventually convinced the
man to surrender to aboriginal police officers, he said.
The former band councillor
was questioned about his own criminal record that included jail
sentences and fines for robbery, assault, escaping custody, drug
possession and impaired driving.
The offences stopped in 1980.
"I thought about what
I did in the past and thought it was time to make a turn,"
said George, who works as a carpenter.
Elected a band councillor in
1992, George said he dealt with OPP officers because of his responsibilities
as a councillor, but still didn't feel he could trust them because
of how he was treated during his earlier arrests.
The treatment included being
dragged around by his hair, he said.
George, who wasn't part of
the group that occupied the Ipperwash army camp in 1993 and the
neighbouring park in 1995, testified he owned a number of firearms,
including an AK 47 semi-automatic rifle and a couple of assault
rifles.
He said the AK 47 was purchased
from a store in London with his firearms acquisition certificate.
He said he was never asked
to bring firearms to the provincial park and he never saw any
natives with firearms when he stopped by to see his sister and
brother, who were among the occupiers.
George is expected to continue
his testimony today.
Lawyers seek viewing
of King beating
JOHN MINER, Free Press Reporter
, December 2, 2004
FOREST -- A videotape of the
brutal 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police will
be played at the Ipperwash inquiry next week if lawyers for members
of Dudley George's family succeed in convincing Justice Sidney
Linden it is relevant. The surprise move by the family's legal
team was announced in advance of the testimony of Cecil Bernard
George.
The Kettle and Stoney Point
band councillor was beaten by OPP riot squad officers during
the 1995 skirmish between police and natives at Ipperwash Provincial
Park.
The lawyers said they will
attempt to introduce the video in order to establish the nature,
severity and duration of the OPP beating of Cecil Bernard George.
Native witnesses at the inquiry
have testified the band councillor approached the riot squad
officers and attempted to tell them the protesters were unarmed.
He was subsequently knocked
to the ground, beaten and then dragged by his hair down the road
to a patrol wagon, witnesses said.
It was during attempts by the
natives to rescue him from the police that Dudley George was
shot and killed by an OPP officer, the inquiry has heard.
The inquiry is examining the
events surrounding the death of Dudley George.
Sam George, a brother of Dudley
George, said it is clear Cecil Bernard George was trying to prevent
violence.
"Unfortunately, he did
not succeed and instead himself became one of the victims of
the police use of extreme force that night," he said.
"The situation then escalated
and resulted in the OPP sniper shooting my brother Dudley."
Ian Roland, lawyer for the
Ontario Provincial Police Association, said it would be "extraordinary"
if the videotape was allowed.
"It would make this process
completely wide open to all kinds of evidence that really has
no connection to Ipperwash," he said.
Roland added he found the move
interesting in light of the accusations made at the inquiry of
stereotyping.
"This seems to be potentially
an extreme example of inappropriate stereotyping," he said.
Roland also attacked George
family lawyer Murray Klippenstein for issuing a news release
about his intention to introduce the videotape before he had
applied to the inquiry.
"It seems to me that it
shows a fair degree of disrespect to the commissioner and the
process."
Jennifer McAleer, a lawyer
for former premier Mike Harris, said she was not taking a position
on the videotape.
"We will leave that up
to the commissioner," she said.
In testimony yesterday, native
witness Kevin Simon said he was present the night before Dudley
George was shot when an OPP officer called George by name and
said he would be the first to get it.
Protester says confrontation ruined his life
CP , December 1, 2004
FOREST -- A 28-year-old native
who participated in the standoff at Ipperwash Provincial Park
in 1995 says the events of that night ruined his life and he
still fears police. Gabriel Doxtator, who lives on the Oneida
First Nation reserve, said he stayed at the former Ipperwash
army camp for six months after the confrontation with police
because he was afraid to leave.
"I was afraid that if
I left, the cops were going to shoot me next," he told the
Ipperwash inquiry yesterday.
"I always gotta be watching
my back now," Doxtator said. "I don't know when (the
police) are going to come up behind me and put a bullet in me
next."
Doxtator, who was testifying
at the inquiry examining the circumstances that led to the 1995
shooting death of native protester Dudley George, participated
in the occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park as a supporter.
He told the inquiry he saw
George retreat back into the park when he was shot and killed
by a provincial police officer.
"I saw Dudley run back
into the park and he said, 'I think I'm hit,' " he said.
Doxtator, who was also running
into the park when the shots were fired, said when he turned
around he saw George holding his chest.
"He was on his feet at
that point, then he dropped to his knees."
Police seen in park during
standoff
CP , November 26, 2004
FOREST -- Police were "sneaking"
through the bushes in Ipperwash Provincial Park before and after
native protester Dudley George was shot and killed, the inquiry
into his death heard yesterday. A member of the Oneida First
Nation testified he saw police inside the park on Lake Huron
on the night of Sept. 6, 1995.
Isaac (Buck) Doxtator, who
was at the park as one of several representatives from Oneida
to lend support, said he was keeping watch around the park's
perimeter to warn if police were approaching.
He said he noticed seven armed
officers lying prone in the bush near the beach.
When they were spotted, Doxtator
said "they just crawled back and went behind the cottages."
After the shooting, he said
he again spotted several armed officers running toward the lake
inside the park fence.
"I thought they were our
guys who were there to help us," he said. "But I looked
again and they had guns and were running towards the lake."
Doxtator is a member of the
Oneida Warrior Society, whose purpose is to "keep the peace
on our territories" and lend support to outside First Nations.
Doxtator said he was at the
Ipperwash army camp and later in the park during its occupation
with the blessing of the Oneida traditional council.
He was asked by commission
counsel Susan Vella about his history of attending native protests
in Canada and the United States.
Doxtator said among the protests
he had attended to lend support was the notorious confrontation
in Oka, Que., where a police officer was killed.
He denied any use of firearms
at those protests in his capacity as a "peacekeeper"
and denied suggestions that he facilitated bringing weapons into
Ipperwash.
Doxtator also told the inquiry
about his involvement in the physical confrontation with police
on the night of Sept. 6.
During the scuffle, Doxtator
said, he struck an officer over the head with a baseball bat
because the officer had struck his left leg with a baton.
Native leader testifies
he feared he'd be killed
JOHN MINER, London Free
Press Reporter , November 24, 2004
FOREST -- A Stoney Point leader
testified yesterday he sent his sister and wife to police lines
to get an ambulance for their son who was wounded in a clash
with police at Ipperwash Provincial Park instead of going himself
because he was afraid of being killed. "I didn't want to
get murdered," Roderick Abraham George told a judicial inquiry
into the fatal shooting of native protester Dudley George at
the park in September 1995.
Roderick George, commonly known
as Judas, described how he watched from behind a building as
his wife drove their son, who had a finger-sized wound in his
chest, to a police roadblock on Highway 21.
When his wife and sister got
out of the vehicle, police approached and yelled: "Get on
the ground, you bitches," George said.
The two women refused, George
said, and he started yelling at the officers. Then other police
jumped up out of a ditch and pointed their rifles at him.
George said he retreated, but
he could see the ambulance arrive and pick up his son, Nicholas
Cottrelle.
The attempts to get medical
help for their son followed a violent skirmish between Ontario
Provincial Police and native occupiers of Ipperwash Provincial
Park.
Holding an eagle feather as
he testified, Roderick George said he was one of the natives
who fought with OPP riot squad officers in a parking lot at the
provincial park, hitting police with part of a wooden crutch.
At one point in the melee,
he heard someone call for "the bus," an old school
bus the natives used on the adjacent army camp that they had
been occupying since 1993.
"We didn't have no weapons
or anything. The bus was intended to divide them up," he
said.
When the bus started moving
toward the police, George said he didn't know it was his 16-year-old
son Nicholas behind the wheel.
George said it was after the
bus came out that he saw a muzzle flash.
At first he thought it must
be a warning shot, then realized it wasn't.
Roderick George estimated at
least 100 shots were fired.
He said Dudley George was standing
in front of him and spun around, saying,"Robert, Robert,
I think I was hit."
Dudley fell down against him
and others carried him to a car in the park. By this point, Roderick
George said he knew his son was driving the bus and he concentrated
on getting it back in the park.
When Nicholas got out of the
bus, George said he noticed a blood spot on his upper right back
area. There was a hole there big enough to put a finger in, he
said.
When his son pulled his shirt
down there was another wound with white liquid coming out, he
said.
After the ambulance took his
son away, George said he gave the order to burn down the park
store and gatehouse and then pull out of the park.
"I said, 'Get everybody
down there and burn those two buildings down, I don't want anyone
else to get hurt."
Asked why he gave the order,
George said it was "retaliation."
None of the natives in the
park that night had firearms, he testified, but there had been
an offer from an outside supporter to supply them.
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