Assistant Superintendent Walter Stanton said that he had to flee the scene at the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge on the evening of July 18, after protestors threatened his life.
“I heard the crowd behind the unit shouting, ‘Kill the officer that is standing alone…’ they were talking about me and they start advancing and pelting bottles and bricks at me,” Stanton said yesterday, when he was called to the witness box as the inquiry into the protestor shootings continued.
From Stanton’s account it appears that the threat was
