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doing a Bicentennial special titled, American Mores and Forays. A
producer named Jean-Jacques—I think he had abbreviated himself
to that—contacted me about photographs and film footage. So I
steered him to the people hired by the police [to shoot the raid].
They were more than willing to sell 370 feet of film at 13 cents a
foot.

In the ONE Archive at the University of Southern California, filed
under the “Mark 40 Defense Fund” there is a nine-folder collection of
ephemera and police reports from several participating undercover officers.
The materials about the excessive and oppressive “police action” around the
Slave Auction include the LA City Council’s findings from its investigation
headed by councilman ZevYaroslavsky, a longtime Democratic member of
the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and a straight opponent of
Chief Ed Davis and of all the anti-gay excesses in the LAPD from 1975 to
2014.

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