Biography
Bill Unger was a Vietnam veteran associated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War who was jailed during an early-1970s anti-police-brutality protest in Watts, Los Angeles. Eyewitness Diane Ford describes his actual two-day incarceration and release from Los Angeles County Jail on the Monday she was freed. She reports that officers beat him in the release area after he made an insulting gesture, aggravating a combat head injury. The account links the detention to the protest; it does not establish his exact calendar dates, statutory charge or final case disposition.
Bill Unger was a Vietnam veteran associated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War who was jailed during an early-1970s anti-police-brutality protest in Watts, Los Angeles. Eyewitness Diane Ford describes his actual two-day incarceration and release from Los Angeles County Jail on the Monday she was freed. She reports that officers beat him in the release area after he made an insulting gesture, aggravating a combat head injury. The account links the detention to the protest; it does not establish his exact calendar dates, statutory charge or final case disposition.
Original document 1233, PDF page 14; Original document 1233, PDF page 15.
