Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white jury in Los Angeles Municipal Court leaned forward as a young deputy city attorney summed up the state's case against a Negro woman charged with impeding a lawful arrest. "If Rena Frye had not interfered with the police officer when they were trying to arrest her son Marquette," Rayford Fountain said, "all we would have today would be a hoy with a slight scar on his forehead, a boy who had experienced a slight jab to his stomach, the effects of which he probably wouldn't remember by this time anyway...
Thus, though he had been ordered by the judge to confine his argument strictly to the facts of the arrest, Prosecutor Fountain, 28, insisted on adding that the fuse lighted by the Fryes turned into the five-day Watts riot that took 34 lives, cost millions in property damage, and "left a blight on our city's history that may take 50 to 100 years to erase." The prosecution contended that the patrolmen had not used excessive force on the Fryes. The defense argued that the officers' unjustifiably rough treatment of the brothers excused Mrs. Frye...
After deliberating 31 hours, the jury found Mrs. Frye guilty. Sentencing, which could amount to a one-year prison term plus $1,000 fine, was deferred pending appeal. She and her sons-Marquette was convicted of drunken driving, malicious destruction of property and battery; Ronald of impeding an arrest-never saw their Buick again. It was towed away after their arrest, and by the time they were able to find it the storage charges exceeded the value...
After the Harvard students who had been attacked identified the youth, he was arrested on charges of robbery. The youth gave MDC officers evidence which led to a second arrest on Saturday night...
...first arrest was made Friday night, when Cambridge police noticed that a youth at a Cambridge dance hall fit the description of one of the attackers. They immediately informed MDC detectives...