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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- .I FEET TIRED? WEAR WALLA BEES5 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 Rent you r Roommate with a Classified Ad 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, 'U' bookstore' sets up discount Continued from Page 1) 1 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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 panel of three federal judges. Designed for maximum comfort with a shape that exactly fits the foot. Glove-soft leather uppers, unique soft-padded inside construction and plantation crepe wedge soles combine to relax the foot. Try a pair, you won't want to take them off. 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