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He also said that Harrison had
never been interviewed concerning
his case.
He added that the officer is a
"trained professional," and that
BAM felt the extenuating circum-
stances of the case were no dif-
ferent on March 14 than during
any other confrontation in Ann
Arbor.
Police Chief Walter Krasny said
last night that he supported
Harris' decision in that "there was
no case against the officer in the
first place."
Krasny continued, "This inci-
dent was just one of those situa-
tions which develops when you
want to quickly apprehend some-
one."
He said he felt the officer's con-
duct was unfortunate but not a
common problem among his police
officers.
While Larcom's report states
that the officer wielded two blows,
it concludes that the incident did
not constitute illegal assault in
that "the blow aimed never struck
the prisoner."
It continues, "Since the prisoner
never saw the blow and was never
put into fear, the charge would
have to be attempted assault or
battery. And here we have a sin-
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gle blow aimed, and it hit the
wrist of the corporal."
The report claims that the sec-
ond blow, which it says hit the
ground, was a "gesture of frus-
tration."
Eric Siegel, '71, who witnessed
most of the incident and testified
for Larcom's report, took excep-
tion with, the report yesterday
saying, "The relevant point to me
is that a police officer aimed a
blow at a person who was sub-
dued andI lying on the ground."
Speaking of the "extenuating
cirmustances" mentioned in the
report, Siegal said, "A large crowd.
showing hostility, instances of po-
lice harassment, and the nebulous
mental strain of the police, seem
rather tenuous justifications for
aiming a club at a persons's head."
President of the Police Union
Paul Bunten, commented last
night on the controversy, "Har-
ris had previously acted on only
half the situation."
"The case, whether or not the
officer was guilty or innocent, is
not a matter of public concern,"
he said. He agreed with Larcom's
method of investigation and sup-
ported Harris' decision to drop
charges.
Reactingto BAM's charges that
professional policemen should be
able to stay calm in crowd situa-
tions, Bunten said, "These are
trained men, yet they function
like any other human being and
are definitely up-tight in a crowd."
"If a policeman had the months
this report had to review the sit-
uation, he might have acted dif-
ferently," he said. "However, the
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officer must make split-second
decisions."
Another student present at the
confrontation spoke last night of
the crowd's atmosphere. "The
mood of the crowd was strike, not
riot," said Karen Bluestone, '73.
"To equate tear gas and guns
with bricks is ridiculous," she said.
The following is an exerpt from
Larcom's report:
"In your memorandum you
(Mayor Harris) mention that the
Committee's report (the first in-
vestigation) reveals no justifica-
tion for the officer swinging two
blows at the head of the prisoner,
and no extenuating circumstances.
My conclusion is that only one
blow was aimed at the prisoner;
that it was unjustified in the
sense that a blow with a baton
should not be aimed at the head
hof aprisoner without some prior
effort by the officer to ascertain
whether there is some apparent
need for it; but that many of the
facts mentioned above constitute
extenuating circumstances, taking
this case far from one in which an
officer cold-bloodedly aims at a
prisoner who has been obviously
subdued."
After the March 19 incident,
blacks charged that police of-
ficers acted in a "racist" manner
while attempting to clear the
crowd and make arrests. Harrison
is black.
Larcom said he had not investi-
gated the question of "whether the
police took race into account on
deciding whom to arrest." T h e
mayor has referred this question
to the city Grievance Officer Ed
Vandenberg for further study.
In his statement, Mayor Harris
jsaid:
"Based on the re-investigation,
I am satisfied that the city should
not seek to press criminal charges
here. I also agree with the ad-
ministrator that this was a proper
case for imposing department dis-
cipline.
"The grounds for discipline
should be made clear: no officer
should swing a riot baton at the
head of a person being arrested
without attempting to ascertain
whether there is any need for such
a blow. Had the officer in ques-
tion sought to learn whether his
blow was necessary he would have
seen it was entirely superfluous.
"In the future should such al
matter arise again it would be
handled by the grievance officer
whose procedures are much better
than the old 3,man committee
procedures. The grievance officer,
unlike the 3-man committee, gets
the police side of the story by in-
terviewing the police who were on,
the scene: the 3-man committee,
in this instance and in the past,
only dealt with Police Department
summaries of the statements of-
ficer witnesses gave their super-
ior~s.
"The grievance officer, had he
been handling the matterhwould
have made a private preliminary
report to the officer in question.
his union, the administrator, and
the police chief, so that their ad-
ditional information could be tak-
en into account by the grievance
officer before he made his final
report to mayor, council, press and
public. This procedure might have
prevented the unseemly spectacle,
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across the board discount for all
text books, theboard emphasized
that "the primary objective of the
bookstore is to stock as many used
books as possible in all depart-
ments. New books will be ordered
when it is impossible to obtain
used books."
The board noted that the book-
store management is currently at-
tempting to secure a large number
of books from out-of-town.
Some board members expressed
concern that students would think
that the store was offering prices
higher than other local bookstores.
They charged that one local
merchant had a practice of mak-
ing a large markdown on one text
for a large course in each major
department and then displaying
these books in store windows to
entice students to buy all their
books there. They also claimed
that one local bookstore marks
down ten per dent on text books
priced over $3. They pointed out
that for many classes, students
purchase large numbers of paper-
back books that almost never cost
more than $3.
we had here-two investigatioi
of the same matter with a series
of inflammatory press releases
in between.
"I regret that it was necessary
to go through so much to get a
complete, in depth investigation
of this incident. Hopefully, this
painful experience will help makd
sure that in the future should any
similar incident arise, the initial
investigation will be as thorough
as the second investigation was in
this case."
Kent 'jury
'Challenged
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political view" and to inhibit tle
expression of other values.
Gov. James Rhodes ordered the
grand jury investigation of dis-
orders at Kent State which ended
with a confrontation between Na-
tional Guardsmen and antiwar
demonstrators May 4 in which
four students were killed and nil
wounded.
No National Guardsmen were
among the 25 persons indicted.
The suit says the jury's report and
conduct of those involved in the
investigation "was a bad faith use
of the state's legal machinery
with the purpose of inhibiting th4
exercise of free speech."
Persons involved in the 'nves-
tigation were prohibited by court
order from discussing any phase
of the probe with newsmen and
from criticizing the jury's findings.
The suit was filed against Ohi~
Atty. Gen. Paul W. Brown, spe-
cial state prosecutors Robert L.
Balyeat, Seabury H. Ford and Per-
ry G. Dickinson and Portage Coun-
ty Clerk of Courts Lucy S. De-
Leone.
It was filed by 10 attorneys in-
volved in the Kent State Leg
Defense Coordinating Center, an
organization offering a defense for
those indicted. The group is head-
ed by William Kunstler, Chicago
Seven defense attorney.
The suit asks that the consti-
tutionality of Ohio's campus anti-
riot statute be considered by 4
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