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no tear gas was used except after repeated warnings that they wanted the people to disperse repeated warnings time and time again. Now it isn't correct to say that the streets have been cleared. What was happening was that the streets were cleared. Those who were engaging in

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the violent illegal actions would go into establishments, the theater, the shops, and when the police line past those establishments, they come back into the streets from the rear and continued the activities for which they've been condemned for which they've been arrested. Now in a riot situation

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such as developing in the Haight Ashbury yesterday, it's constitutionally permissible for the policemen to tell the shop owners that they want everybody out of the shops until the entire area has been brought under control so that the people traveling the area might be safe. So I

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don't think that there was any justifications for any charge of police brutality. Connection with that situation. There was no numerous instances of brutality all through the whole thing there. They picked up a minister for for nothing commented on the way they were treating people. They had

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picked up a man's wife, left her child on the street because other people were bloody and cut. It had no medical attention for hours. They allowed no phone calls until I never had a phone call at all. It's 3:00 AM when I was let out. I

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never had a phone call and my camera was confiscated. The film was confiscated. It was broken. I was beat with the club when they picked me up and put me in a pay wagon, was strangling me at the club and jerked the camera off my neck,

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broke the strap. And I was I tried to show him a press card and they didn't want to see it. So there's nothing else I can add. It seems impossible. I think, I think it's regrettable and I think it's wrong that at a time like this

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when crime is as high as it is in the city. But these people conduct themselves in such a manner that it is necessary to take the manpower from the other parts of the city and are concentrated in an area where just a little bit of cooperation

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would have settled the whole matter. It's just discourtesy and inconsiderate actions. And then this led to violence, the throwing of bottles and glass and everything else that our police and when this happens we will restore order. Was there an unusual amount of force used in bringing

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the situation under control? No, there was not. And this is why we eventually went to the use of the gas so that we wouldn't have to use actual physical force in contact with these people. And if we wanted to use force, we would not have used

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the gas