Original sentence: Some media reports and political critics have suggested that Ayers, Dohrn or the Weathermen were connected to the fatal 1970 San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing but neither Ayers nor anyone else has been charged or convicted of this crime
Edited sentence: "  The Chicago Tribune pointed out that during the riot three elderly people were forced out of their car at gunpoint and told to get on the ground.'"  Yet older published articles contradict this later claim and show that he did make the statement without any indications that it was a joke.Another group of young Weathermen in Ohio attacked police officers with a metal pipe, causing injuries.Ayers' personal involvement in manufacturing a nail bomb that was intended to be used during a dance for military personnel further undermines his contention that he and the Weather Underground were not terrorists.Contemporary accounts, however, challenge his rebuttal and noted that bystanders were attacked during the "Days of Rage.Moreover, as noted by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, under current law Ayers would be considered a terrorist.Most significantly, members of the Weathermen involved in the armed robbery of a Brinks truck in 1981 shot and killed two police officers and a guard.Some media reports and political critics have suggested that Ayers, Dohrn or the Weathermen were connected to the fatal 1970 San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombingin which one police officer was killed and another blinded but neither Ayers nor anyone else has been charged or convicted of this crime