Word: arresters
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...Kennedy's political strategists were torn over the right response. More than one southern Democratic governor had warned them even before the arrest that an endorsement of Dr. King's crusade would cost them the state in the election. But Kennedy's brother in law, Sargent Shriver, got him alone in a room and urged the candidate to just pick up the phone. As the story has been told by historians from Theodore White to Taylor Branch and many in between, Jack Kennedy called Coretta Scott King to tell her of his concern and offer to help...
...order surveillance that is worrisome. When the President can decide without oversight who the enemy is, there is nothing to prevent his spying on war protesters, Time reporters or anyone else on his personal enemies list. The same objection applies to the President's assumption of the authority to arrest suspected terrorists and hold them out of sight: there is simply no way to tell if presidential power is being abused. Klein touts the successes of the spying program and laments that its cover has been blown, but getting the approval that the wiretapping law requires would not have impeded...
...sparred with a 43-year-old at Au Bon Pain who refused to leave the restaurant last Saturday. John Igo, 43, of Cambridge first swung at the officer, then pushed him over a bike rack. Igo was slapped with charges of assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, and falsifying his information to officers following the arrest. Igo originally lied to police about his name, address, date of birth and social security number...
...unwanted guest” at Memorial Hall’s Loker Commons was served a cold plate of arrest after he became agitated and yelled at police last Wednesday. The 52-year-old trespasser, Michael Webster, of Worcester, Mass., stuck out like a sour thumb at the freshman hangout spot, appearing to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to Catalano. After allegedly making a scene and refusing to comply with the responding officers’ request, Webster was arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest...
...Orleans, but many of the city's bad guys seem to be turning up in Houston, which finds itself caught in the cross hairs of an apparent gang war between Hurricane Katrina evacuees from two rival housing projects. On Friday, Houston's newly formed Gang Murder Squad announced the arrest of eight men from New Orleans suspected in 11 murders in the Houston area over the past three months. "These guys are hooking up with friends and old rivalries are beginning again," Sgt. Brian Harris, a Gang Murder Squad investigator and the top detective on the case, told TIME. Unlike...