Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this common beginning the several stories of what then followed divericate. According to his account, as he had just finished eating he was suddenly placed under arrest, struck twice on the head so that his blood flowed, while the offending policeman deputized several onlookers to take him, unresisting, to jail. He charged that it was a "frame-up." According to the official accounts he was: 1) drunkenly throwing things around in the restaurant, or 2) being fed by two lady companions when arrested; he resisted and the policeman was obliged to deputize others present to aid in taking...
...Deputy Macib followed Deputy Perez and in a doorway emptied a revolver into his opponent's body. Perez died. Macib was arrested but promptly released. It is unlawful to arrest a member of Congress...
...fleet landed sailors and marines at Vera Cruz. The customs house was seized and the city was occupied, after some fighting, for the purpose of exacting an apology from Mexico for the arrest of U. S. gobs...
...Lady Astor asked, amid cheers, that a committee of inquiry be set up for the purpose of repealing the law under which the police arrest women for soliciting. She observed that, if a man were charged with annoying women, evidence of the persons annoyed was required to effect his condign punishment...
...functioning. Then he began to see the futility of his own tactics, in view of sporadic terrorist activities. He saw that Swaraj could be obtained only through supporting the dyarchical system and the lawful suppression of violence. He asked the Government to cooperate by abrogating its arbitrary powers to arrest and punish agitators. Gandhi joined him last autumn, and non-coöperation came...