In addition, the African-American students knew that police would not be as violent against a group of black students, to prevent riots due to the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed three weeks prior.
此外，非洲裔美国学生深知警察不会对一群黑人学生施暴以阻止骚乱，因为马丁·路德·金三周前才被杀害。