Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years civil rights workers in the Deep South have pleaded, with little success, for more U.S. Marshals or FBI agents on the scene, for more Justice Department suits against infringements of voting rights, in short, for some sort of Federal intervention. Hopefully the arrest of these men symbolizes a fundamental change in the attitude of the Federal government...
...case, those who advocated fencing had a fairly cogent argument. They claimed that prosecution, rather than sobering local citizens, often rallied them behind the defendants, who became town martyrs. This reasoning no longer holds weight. True, an angry mob of rednecks gathered to hiss the FBI agents upon the arrest of Sheriff Rainey. But that mob did not speak for the town. Rainey was no martyr to the ten Neshoba County clergymen, all of whom signed this statement: "There is an element of shame to all that there would be among us those accused of such a crime... We desire...
...like Watson again, Tonis has misconstrued his role. The main responsibility of the University Police is to protect the property and buildings of Harvard. It is not to arrest or even to investigate criminal suspects. When Tonis accompanies and helps federal agents he goes beyond the bounds of his office and seems to give the University's support to the investigation--support which should instead be given to the student until evidence proves it to be misplaced...
...University of California demonstrators will be arraigned today before Alameda Country courts on charges of trespassing, refusing to disperse, and resisting arrest. Legal spokesmen for the students have threatened to demand individual trials and tie up the court system for months, unless the charges are dropped...
...students held classes in the building, and effectively prevented Berkeley from functioning as a University, until Gov. Edmund G. Brown ordered police to arrest the students...