Word: control
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Their recollections--of superiors shouting for police to fire on demonstrators and of other officers injured while trying to control the crowds--give a view of the "other side" of April 1969, usually ignored when Harvard retells the story...
...police were required to do crowd control even before University Hall was cleared. One of those doing crowd control April 9 was Doherty, who was a part of Somerville police's Tactical Police Force (TPF), a unit specially trained in riot control...
...both TPF and patrollers were bussed into Cambridge, Caliguri recalls, the officers were told that there was rioting that needed to be kept under control and that Harvard students were destroying property...
Caliguri says he remembers being informed that the students were damaging businesses, that cars were being overturned and that the Cambridge police could not control...
Neither Doherty nor Caliguri was present at the time of the takeover--their shifts ended at 1 a.m.--but Doherty says he heard later from the Cambridge police that the crowd control efforts had been successful overall...