 O'Connell's demand that they allow the police to enter the clubhouse was "greeted by threats and curses".O'Connell then walked up to the front door and banged on the front door with his club to which one of the gangsters fired out a window "and grazed a policeman's skull".Madden then called out to police threatening "We'll shoot the gizzard out of any cop who tries to get in here!"