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...patrolmen convicted were John F. Bilodeau, who will serve 200 hours punishment duty, and Rowland W. Bird Jr. who will serve 100 hours extra duty...
...Rena Frye, 49, did interfere when California highway patrolmen stopped Marquette, 21, on suspicion of drunken driving last Aug. 11. His brother Ronald, 22, was a passenger in the battered grey and white Buick. Hearing that her sons were in trouble, diminutive (5 ft.) Mrs. Frye came from her house near by, scolded Marquette, and asked the officers if she could take the car-which her husband needed to drive to his job. A hostile crowd gathered, and the two boys got into a scuffle with the cops. Mrs. Frye jumped on one officer's back, was dragged...
...adding that the fuse lighted by the Fryes turned into the five-day Watts riot that took 34 lives, cost millions in property damage, and "left a blight on our city's history that may take 50 to 100 years to erase." The prosecution contended that the patrolmen had not used excessive force on the Fryes. The defense argued that the officers' unjustifiably rough treatment of the brothers excused Mrs. Frye's actions...
...learned yesterday that Howard Whitmore Jr. '29, commissioner of the MDC, has agreed to place three large searchlights in the Charles River area between the Larz-Anderson Bridge and the Weeks Bridge. The MDC will also install an emergency phone near Memorial Drive so that Harvard patrolmen can call the MDC immediately in case of further trouble...
Around the courthouse and on the sidewalk in front of the cafe stood a small crowd of whites, watching indifferently. Six state patrolmen slouched with folded arms. The Negro police chief was nowhere in sight...