Karen Malloy, one of the two women in the motel, testified that she saw Cooper shoot a starter's pistol at another black youth in a room on the third floor of the motel. The police then shot out the window of the room and the occupants fled. She ran to the room of Robert Greene and hid there until a police officer with a rifle arrived. The officer fired into the closet and a bathroom. Then, he asked if there was anyone in either place. They were all herded into the first floor hallway, where she said several of the black youths were beaten and taken individually into motel rooms. She testified she was not beaten but she had been forcibly stripped naked.https://archive.org/stream/lns-167/LNS-167_djvu.txt. "She told the jury that she was stripped naked by police, who called her "all sorts of vulgar things." She testified that she could not identify August as one of the officers and that she had not seen any of the killings.
