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<font size=3>Ronald Bridgeforth will be entering a plea in court Tuesday,
November 22nd at 9 am in front of Judge Novack. The hearing is in the
Redwood City Superior Court - second floor - 400 County Center.<br><br>
More than four decades after jumping bail, a 67-year-old college
counselor walked into a Redwood City courtroom Thursday, November 10th
and said he planned to accept punishment for opening fire on South San
Francisco police officers in 1968.<br><br>
Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly
weapon in 1969, but fled before sentencing. Bridgeforth recently made
bail, set at $25,000.<br><br>
Speaking briefly during the hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court,
Bridgeforth said, "I guess I've come back to face the consequences
of my actions."<br><br>
Ronald at 20 years old left college to go to Mississippi where he
registered voters for over a year, where he was chased by a mob,
threatened with death, and briefly arrested by Mississippi police when he
went to the station to pay a ticket. He went to San Francisco where
he organized for SNCC, bringing Fanie Lou Hamer to the bay area to speak,
and acting as Stokley Carmichael's bodyguard when Stokley spoke to
various colleges and organizations here in the bay area.<br><br>
In the last 40 years he worked his way up from a custodian to getting a
Masters degree in Counseling. He has been a respected and beloved
counselor and teacher at a community college in Michigan for many
years.<br><br>
The California Attorney General's office recently dropped murder charges
against him in the killing of police Sgt. John Young at San Francisco's
Ingleside Station on Aug. 29, 1971.<br><br>
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