#leroy cooper

[gottahavesoul]

Hank Crawford - What a Difference a Day Made (The Soul Clinic, 1962)

Personnel:

Hank Crawford - alto saxophone Phillip Guilbeau - trumpet John Hunt - trumpet David Newman - tenor saxophone Leroy Cooper - baritone saxophone Edgar Willis - bass Milt Turner - drums

[weiyulive]

In July 1981, Liverpool police arrested Leroy Cooper in front of a large crowd in the poor, black Toxteth neighborhood. The arrest, carried out with the force’s then-customary casual brutality, served as a flash point for pent-up rage at police harassment in the community, leading to days of violent clashes with the coppers that drew in youth from all around the region and triggered riots in other British cities. The night this photo was taken, hundreds of officers were driven back down Granby Street toward the city center by rioters throwing stones and petrol bombs. The police eventually managed to quell the violence, but not before pissing off a lot more people by firing tear-gas “ferret rounds” directly into the crowd.

by John Sturrock (via vice)