How did the american public react to televised scenes of birmingham's police force turning dogs and fire hoses against peaceful civil rights marchers? a. decent people, both in the north and in the south, were horrified and outraged. b. northerners didn't pay any attention and southerners didn't have television sets. c. most people across the north and the south sympathized with the police. d. most northerners and southerners felt the civil rights movement had achieved its goals.