RFK: 'Don't close them. If they're going to shoot, they'll shoot.'

"Don't close them. If they're going to shoot, they'll shoot."

From Jules Witcover's "85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy" (p.147), regarding an incident on April 11, 1968:

Bill Barry came up and told Dutton ... that local police had spotted a man with a rifle on a nearby rooftop. Dutton, not wanting to upset Kennedy, walked casually into the bed…