"In the light of subsequent developments in this case, I am inclined to be lenient towards Detective Johnson," the commissioner said. "His compulsion to fire at the youth is understandable, if not justifiable, in view of his previous unfortunate experience with an acid thrower." The commissioner had come into office by way of a law practice and could handle those jawbreaking words with much greater ease than the cops who learned their trade pounding beats.
- Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p.867 in Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
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