Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS--AS SHE contends--the international movement to free Angela Davis that sprang up in 1970 after her arrest on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy would have been just as massive if it had been centered around some other political prisoner. The era of massive political protests was still in full force and during the previous year there had been a number of strong defense committees set up for several comrades--the Soledad Brothers, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Erica Huggins. But the millions of people who signed petitions and donated money to over 200 chapters of the National United...
...heavy police presence increased tension among Southie's resentful Irish residents, and one evening a brick was heaved through the windshield of a cruising T.P.F. squad car. When the officers tried to arrest a suspect, two dozen Southie toughs set upon them, and the police lost the man in the crowd. The next night two dozen T.P.F. officers burst into the jampacked Rabbit Inn on Dorchester Street. As many as eight patrons were reported injured. Some Southies are convinced that the T.P.F...
...issues that PWRM raised in 1970 remain. South Africa is a police regime that has by law excluded the indigenous people of its land from the basics of survival. The average arrest rate of Africans for passbook violations is over 3,000 per day; the violator is subject to fail, fines, and/or whipping with no trial. The average monthly wage for an African is 7 rand ($9.80). South Africa has the world's largest hanging rate, with 118 executed in 1968 alone. The passbook has been called the pillar of apartheid, the main tool with which the white-ruling clique...
...police investigation into the circumstances of Anderson's arrest began in mid-July after Anderson filed a complaint with the department. Anderson was arrested while driving a motorcycle, and charged with failing to stop for a uniformed officer and dangerous driving...
Homans said the report goes on to say that Officer James Hallice walked Anderson to a patrol car. He said it charges that when Hallice went to the car radio to report the arrest, Ahern "slammed" Anderson against the hood...