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Officers who say our police don't carry guns. in china, our police don't carry guns. when a police officer says you're under arrest, you better comply. they don't see street arguments and debates and wrestling matches on the street like we do. if somebody wrestles with the police in those countries, the punishment is severe. these countries in europe still use water cannons? i witnessed this myself once when a riot broke out after a soccer match in denmark. i feel the hotel shaking. a big tank comes up and it was a man-made tsunami. we abolished the use of fire hoses in 1963 during the civil r...

Connor used mass arrests, fire hoses, police dogs to break up the demonstrations. >> the demonstrations continued for weeks. you've got 12, 14, 20 adults maximum per day marching, they're making no news, and the numbers were dwindling. the movement was on the brink of extinction when bevel and the nashville movement comes along and says, i've got plenty of teenagers in my youth workshops who are willing to go to jail. >> i was on the phone constantly with jim, with diane, and others about making it happen. >> there's an understandable reluctance on king's part of organizing for students to get...

Officers quickly moved in to make the arrests under the direction of commissioner bull connor. police overflowed juvenile hall with the youthful demonstrators. all kinds of vehicles had to be pressed into service to carry the negroes. cars, police paddywagons, later in the day, school buses. the sheriff's department estimated upwards of 400 had been arrested. >> instead of 14 adults, you had 600 teenagers and the next day a thousand and that's when the dogs and the fire hoses came out. >> of course, what he was doing was exactly what head of the civil rights movement in

>> we know they're going to say not guilty. because no one saw them pull the trigger. i'm tired of that. don't bow down anymore. hold your heads up. we want our freedom now. i don't want to have to go to another memorial. i'm tired of them, tired of it. you've got to stand up. >> the arrests had started before dawn. in all, fbi men picked up 21 men.

Start drawing knives again, throwing rocks. we will use the hose if it becomes necessary to stop the mob. >> most of the pickets and the marchers were juveniles instead of the adults seen in previous protests. officers quickly moved in to make the arrests under the direction of commissioner bull connor. police overflowed juvenile hall with the youthful demonstrators. all kinds of vehicles had to be pressed into service to carry the negroes. cars, police paddywagons, later in the day, school buses. the sheriff's department estimated upwards of 400 had been arrested. >> instead of 14 adults, you...