2A - Wednesday, April 11, 2007 N4 2 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com NICE GOLF SHOT Arresting the protesters Last Tuesday's Students Orga- nizing for Labor and Economic Equality protest, which resulted in the arrests of 12 students, pales in comparison to the 1968 sit-in and rally for welfare rights in Washt- enaw County. On Sept. 6, 1968, police arrest- ed about 170 University students and 12 others after the protesters staged a four-hour sit-in at the Washtenaw County Building on Main Street. The day before, 52 protesters - 28 of which were students - were removed from the second floor of the building and arrested. The sit-in was in support of a supplemental grant for welfare mothers to purchase school cloth- ing for their children. On the second day, a mixed mob of protesters - including several welfare recipient mothers - sat for four hours in the building's lobby while more than 1,200 supporters rallied on the Diag, Of those 1,200 supporters, about half marched on to the County Building.Theyapproachedthescene around the building's closing time and met heavy police resistance. As the protesters moved closer, more than 150 officers dressed in riot gear held off the crowd with rifles, shotguns and riot sticks, accordingto Michigan Daily stories about the incident. The Daily described the police as "Tactical Mobile Pigs" who "escort- ed their prey into waiting pigmo- biles" and "maintained a no-man's land on Huron Street." As their counterparts locked down the building's exterior, the police units inside arrested the remaining protesters. Because of the number of arrests, protesters were taken to City Hall by bus. In a first-hand account published in the Daily two days afterthe sit-in, then-Features Editor Daniel Okrent described the scene when he was booked for trespassing charges:- "The initial booking operation was very much like (class) registration in the Waterman gym." The protesters were arraigned in the Ann Arbor Municipal Court for trespassing. A bail fund was set up by an assortment of contributors, including the student government and the Ann Arbor chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Okrent admitted he didn't par- ticipate just for welfare mothers. "I also got arrested so I could stop the Vietnam war, promote black control of black communi- ties, kill off the Democratic Party, end police brutality, support the California grapepickers strike, and provide liberty and justice for all," he wrote. 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