Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument that those arrested were innocent bystanders is, I believe, fallacious. A mob finds its power of destruction because it is a large mass of people. Though a single individual may not be responsible for damage, just by standing within the crowd he is adding to its effectiveness and danger. Since the police cannot arrest the whole crowd, they must single out individuals--and this will usually be arbitrary. Dean Bender has pointed out several times that when a student sees a riot, he should walk away as fast as possible or he will be liable to place of influence...
Beyond this problem of discipline, the Administrative Board has a longer range question to solve. When the paddy wagons deposited their twenty-eight occupants at Central Square headquarters, the men under arrest were greeted by a University official who was busily doling out funds from the Deans Office bail-posting fund. Yet the next day, when they gathered in the courtroom, most of them faced for the first time with something more serious than a parking ticket, the University official was nowhere in sight. It seemed that the people who were in charge of University Hall were wavering between outright...
There is a good case for intervention: most of those under arrest had no idea of what they should plead, where to find legal counsel, or what the chances were of escaping sentence. Like sheep they followed the example of those lucky enough to have a lawyer. This worked last Friday, but it will take more than follow-the-leader tactics to wage a court trial...
...complainant against Rugo is patrolman William Story, one of the four officers who helped put Rugo in the patrol wagon when he was arrested during the riot. Story said the student, who was with a date at the time, violently resisted arrest...
Chief of University Police Alvin T. Bandall was reportedly threatened with arrest by a Cambridge policeman...