Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Student leaders at the chapel said yesterday that two persons were slightly injured during the arrest procedure, which took between 10 and 15 minutes. One was a girl with undetermined injuries, the other a young man with a sprained ankle...
Several student leaders later complained that the plainclothes federal agents were unnecessarily harsh to Kroll during his arrest. Observers said he was dragged down the steps outside the chapel, and an official statement noted "the faceless brutality...
After the arrest, black cloth was draped in front of the chapel entrance and students put on black armbands. A service was held with the Rev. Robert H. Hamill, dean of Marsh Chapel, officiating and praising the students for their reliance on nonviolence...
...committed the largest number of offenses in all categories. During the '60s, the post-World War II baby crop came of criminal age. The fact that there are proportionately more Negroes than whites in the age group 15 to 24 explains at least in small part the higher arrest rate among Negroes...
...rules. Under Illinois law, for example, a policeman is justified in using deadly force "only when he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another person, or when he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to make the arrest and the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a forcible felony, or is attempting to escape by use of a deadly weapon, or otherwise indicates he will endanger human life or inflict great bodily harm unless arrested without delay...