Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March.Wash remembers the police as "the ultimate terror . . . You saw the police, you ran. It was automatic." Why were the police so frightening? "It was a rare weekend passed," Wash said, "that one or two folk . . . didn't get killed by the police . . . This is what they'd do to you: They'd call you and make you stick your head in the window [of the police car] . . . and then they would roll the window up . . . And then they'd hit you on your head . . . They'd beat people to death." As a result, he said, parents could scare unruly children into minding them by threatening, "The police gonna get you."What is the tone of the excerpt?
The excerpt describes police killing and beating people, including a disturbing account of trapping someone’s head in a car window. These details are meant to horrify the reader, so the tone is shocking. It is not mischievous or hesitant, and it does not mainly present a calm, logical argument.
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