"The idiots do not realize the S.S. don't f' around
f'n hilarious!"
The LAST MASS RIOTS IN WASHINGTON D.C. THAT I
REMEMBER....(1971 May Day Protests) notes below...
The just locked up the males in a stadium, put guards
around it, and kept them locked up for three days without
seeing a judge.. ( ; )...
I believe the females were given a little better treatment
and kept inside somewhere.
After things settled down they began to release the prisoners
without charging most of them....
Several years later they were paying out a few hundred to
a $1,000 each, ... (I don't know what the ACLU got ! ( ; )
dollars to each protestor for violating their "rights"...
"Smaller protests continued resulting in the arrests of several thousand more, bringing the total to 12,614 people, making this the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. [3][8]
Aftermath
Conspiracy charges against May Day tribe leaders were dismissed. Out of the 12,000 demonstrators arrested most were released without charges and 79 were eventually convicted.[9] The ACLU pursued a class action suit brought by thousands of detained protesters and ultimately the US Congress, recognizing the illegal nature of the arrests, agreed to pay a settlement to those arrested, making them some of the only citizens in US history to receive financial compensation for violation of the constitutional right of free assembly.[10]"
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