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Organizers of the march had predicted a crowd of between 5000 and 10,000 demonstrators, but police said that they were prepared to deal with 20,000. Mounted police and foot patrolmen were positioned along Tremont St. and in the Common, and paddy wagons were assembled behind the State House. No tear gas was used on the demon-strators, although hundreds had come with gas masks...
...patrolmen in the United States should take this as an outright challenge and threat to not only themselves but the very basic idea of freedom in America," MacEachern said...
...changed his mind in the spring of 1964 after witnessing an enacument of an all too common scene: the police vs. the black community. Some black teenagers had accidentally knocked over a fruit vendor's stand in Harlem. The vendor immediately called two nearby foot patrolmen. A crowd gathered, and the fight was on. "I realized then." says Miller, "that I could not follow standard procedure, that the problems of the black community had to be wrestled with on a much more immediate level than I had had in mind...
...Patrolmen sounded the city alarm and went to Matthews to evacuate the remaining students from their rooms, Within minutes, eight fire engines from the Quincy Street Station raced across the Yard and parked around Matthews...
Nine highway patrolmen were later charged with violation of the victims' civil rights, a Federal misdemeanor. The U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted, but the nine were acquitted after a week long trial. The jury included two blacks...