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The Terrible Meek
Merwin, W. S. | June 16, 1962 issue

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A crime has been committed: the peace has been endangered in Washington, D.C., and five people so far have gone to jail for it. It was long enough to convince the police that they would be less dangerous if they were kept moving. Or something like that. Apparently it took that long for, the news to filter up to Captain Pyle of the Third Precinct that these people's arm bands had lettering or' them; when he heard that, of course he act- ed at once. It says in the book that an arm band with printing on it turns the wearer into a demonstrator, and it is the custom of the police to tell demonstrators that they'll have to keep moving, and these people were standing still.

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CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; CRIME; POLICE; SOCIAL problems; LAW -- United States; UNITED States
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