The Amsterdam News, a notable Black newspaper, grabbed the woman who stabbed King and held her until a security officer took her. Another woman reached to take the blade out of King’s chest, fearing he might die, but Howard and Romano stopped her in time, knowing that the blade was probably keeping him alive. “In those days we didn’t have walkie-talkies,” Howard told Spring 3100, an internal Police Department magazine, in an interview years after. “The only radio we had was the one in the patrol car. We were entirely on our own, and believe me, it was some predicament.”