Word: policemanly
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...young man testified. He told the court that after he and his friends saw the officer coming, "We moved back. They looked mad and we knew they were police." The man described the situation, charging that the policeman had bumped his left shoulder and that later, "sensing him come up to me, I turned around." The man said after the officer identified himself, he raised his hands, saying "Wait a minute." He said the officer said he would have to arrest him for attempted assault of a police officer and the man placed his hands behind him in a handcuff...
...Within an hour, they were jumping out of the crowd and toward the stage, flailing, screaming about Communist aggression, conspiracies, treason. Finally the police come to push them away. "Whose side are you on," one of the Moonies asked the cops. "Yours--but they've got a permit," a policeman answered. A tactical retreat, and then the Moonies regroup to hand out literature at the edge of the rally...
...Alvin F. Poussaint, associate professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, told the crowd that attendance at Harvard is no protection. "A Black life does not mean as much as a white life," he said, adding that Ezera's arrest resulted from the policeman's mental image of a Black male--a "mugger or a killer...
...thought about the incident, the stranger it seemed. I decided that if they guy was passing himself off as a cop, the Harvard Police should know about it. At 7 a.m. I called them. A man answered the phone and I told him what happened. I described the "policeman" as wearing a blue quilted vest and a dark shirt. The cop chuckled, "He's here with me right now. Don't worry, he is one of our detectives, he was going to give you a ride." I was surprised and flustered; I said something about being glad...
Then I got angry. How could I have known this guy was a policeman? It seems that a plainclothes cop wouldn't go around telling people his identity. I walk strongly and rapidly, I can't believe that I looked like I needed aid. I didn't ask for help, so why did this guy stop me? Because he thought I was attractive? I've been taught that this is not the way to meet people. I don't see why I should accept behavior from a policeman that I wouldn't accept from any other man in the street...