Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice-looking group. The men wore quiet ties and dark, well-fitting suits; the women, mostly hatless and coifed for the occasion, were in simple knits or tweeds, just the thing for the suburbs-even an appearance in court. These were the parents whose arrest for violation of a Connecticut statute against serving liquor to minors has sent a shock wave of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I across the country (TIME...
...parents broke through police lines into P.S. 149. But police inside the entrance locked arms, formed a human chute that funneled the crowd into the auditorium. As each parent entered the hall, Nevins shouted: "You have no legal right to be in this building. You are under arrest." Outside, 300 P.A.T. pickets turned nasty as dark-green police vans rolled up to a side entrance. When police tried to herd their prisoners into the vans, someone shouted, "Don't let them!" and the riot was on. The scuffle, brief but bloody, finally ended when a P.A.T. lawyer borrowed...
P.A.T. partisans were well prepared for their arrest. One mother brought diapers, changed her baby on a court bench. Others came with baby bottles and box lunches. Taken before the judge in relays of five, the parents were charged with loitering on school premises, a form of disorderly conduct punishable by up to 60 days in jail. Then they were released in their own custody to await trial next month...
P.A.T. counted the violence and arrests a gain. "We have made our point," exulted one P.A.T. official. The board grimly agreed. "Force was brought to our doorstep," protested Superintendent of Schools Calvin Gross, warning that he would not wait two days next time to arrest parents who threatened yet another...
Except for one COFO worker who was roughed up, the only incident of the day was the arrest of one registrant on charges of passing a bad check...