Original sentence: "Massacre" was bandied about, as it had been for the Boston Massacre of 1770 in which five were killed and several more wounded.Following the shootings, the discussion in some ranges of the press of whether these were legal shootings of American citizens, or whether the protests were illegal, served to further galvanize uncommitted opinion by the terms of the discourse.For more on this incident,visit the archives of the African American Registry.On May 14 of the same year, two students at the historically black Jackson State University were shot to death and several others wounded, under more questionable circumstances, without arousing nationwide attention
Edited sentence: " At first, he seemed to take the shootings lightly, although in the following days he made a show of lamenting the deaths."Massacre" was bandied about, as it had been used for the Boston Massacre of 1770 in which five were killed and several more wounded.Following the shootings, the discussion in some ranges of the press of whether these were legal shootings of American citizens or not, and whether the protests were legal, served to further galvanize uncommitted opinion by the terms of the discourse.For more on this incident, visit the archives of the African American Registry.Just five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington DC against the war.On May 14 of the same year, two students at the historically black Jackson State University were shot to death and several others wounded, under more questionable circumstances, and without arousing nationwide attention