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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.college
Subject: Re: Eight MIT students arrested in Apartheid protest
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 21:28:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 21:28:28 1986
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In article <1292@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP writes:
>[...]
>awoke the 4 people who were sleeping inside of the shanties.  They
>were ordered to leave.  A few minutes later, other Coalition members
>arrived and, along with those who had been sleeping, climbed atop
>one of the shanties and refused to move, [...]
>
>William Dickson, senior vice president of MIT, arrived and read a
>prepared statement, informing the students that they had 5 minutes to
>leave or be arrested.  Approximately five minutes later, with no final
>warning, the police rushed the shanties and arrested 8 students,
>including two who were on the ground, one of whom (me) was
>photographing the event.
>
>[...] MIT launched this attack without prior warning and with little
>concern for the safety of the students involved. [...]

Without prior warning? How did the "other Coalition members" know to
show up to resist? And why were you there to photograph the event if
there was "no prior warning"? Could it be that this event was staged?

Do you not consider 5 minutes warning sufficient? By your own testimony
it was "approximately five minutes later" that they arrested the students.
Is your complaint that they issued "no final warning" before beginning
their arrests? Or is it that they arrested people on the ground as well
as those on the roofs, even though your statement implies that all the
students were asked to leave?