Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even though each member of the city's 400-man narcotics street squads has at least one informant working for him, corrupt cops hungered for more. Logan testified that they sometimes threatened a man with a "flake," or false arrest, to force him to become an informant. Logan once approached a man selling wigs on a street in Harlem. He told the merchant that he would be arrested for possession of stolen goods unless he provided narcotics tips. He did. It was scarcely news when a subsequent witness, Paul Curran, chairman of the State Commission of Investigation, called...
...room where the meeting was going on. She screamed. "There's some white men trying to shoot Malik." By this time, the people in the room had caught up with the chase. Hakim was lying injured outside under the eyes of a dozen policemen. He had been placed under arrest on two charges--violation of parole and the rape of a white woman...
After his arrest, Hakim was held in jail in lieu of $50,000 bond. The bail was later lowered to $2,500. The money was raised, and Hakim was released...
...friends. He is said to be under constant police surveillance. At week's end, in an open letter circulating in Moscow, Medvedev strongly protested against the "absolutely arbitrary nature and illegality" of the police raid. Some fear that this new round of harassment may be a prelude to arrest, but there is hope that Medvedev's international stature may be sufficiently enhanced by Let History Judge to persuade the authorities to think twice before further persecuting him and thus touching off a worldwide protest...
...world's highest per capita, with 424,000 blacks behind bars, half of them for petty infractions of the pass laws. The jails also hold 800 persons who are officially classified as political prisoners. According to one recent account, the government still has 42 persons under house arrest and out of circulation, including a grandson of Gandhi (no newspaper can mention their names). In Pretoria, the terrorism trial of the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, is now in its third month. In Natal, where 14 nonwhites are also on trial under the government...