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Police officials said yesterday that members of the Boston Police Force-including the riot-oriented Tactical Squad-the Metropolitan District Police, and the State Capitol Police Force will be on hand to prevent any disruption of the State Capitol or the Federal Building...
...continues to define and limit acceptable law enforcement procedures. They believe that the Bill of Rights-at least on paper-can somehow forbid the police state. In fact, ever since Abraham Lincoln saddled the country with martial law in 1861, the courts have set precious few constitutional limits on riot control and have dumbly excused almost all the emergency powers of government...
...suspected of committing or conspiring to commit espionage or sabotage during national emergencies. But such an emergency cannot be declared unless there is war or "an insurrection in aid of a foreign enemy." The attempt to shut down Washington last Monday might have qualified here, So, too, in the riot-filled summers of 1967 and 1968, many blacks gave credit to rumors of a stupendous federal invasion of the ghettos should the President decree a "state of insurrection...
Yale students expressed their solidarity Friday night with striking workers of the Yale food services by staging a massive food-throwing riot in the huge Yale Commons...
Police scattered a crowd of about 1500 there, but the marchers regrouped and gained more supporters as they headed for George Washington University. The march swelled in size to about 5000 persons before riot-equipped officers used nightsticks and mace to restore order...