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Arrests for inciting crowds (15)
Margaret Mitchell was charged with throwing pans on the floor inside Kress’s store, causing a crowd to collect and displays to be knocked off counters by women reacting to the efforts of police officers to push them out on to West 125th Street. Sam Jameson, Murray Samuels and Claudio Viabolo picketed in front of Kress’ store. Half of those arrested (8 of 16) were also charged with other offenses, seven with breaking windows and one with possession of a knife. (They are also included with those arrested for allegedly committing those acts). Four of those arrested were white men, all members of organizations associated with the Communist Party. While Mitchell was the only woman arrested, at least two others were reported to have shouted that Rivera had been beaten or killed, cries that police claimed contributed to crowds gathering and attacking stores.
Police made fifteen arrests for riot. The women whose screams reportedly caused crowds to act in the Kress store and at its rear were not among those arrested. Police did arrest one Black woman, Margaret Mitchell, inside the Kress store, alleging that she had called on ??. Three white men were also among those arrested for riot, all in front of the Kress store at the beginning of the disorder. Daniel Miller had tried to speak - arrest cos window broken, but not at his urging, so had not actually committed crime of riot. The two other men, Sam Jameson and Murray Samuels, together with Claudio Vaibolo, were members of the Young Liberators who picketed the Kress store. When they refused to move on, police arrested them. Like Miller, their actions did not appear to fit a charge of riot. Their signs did not call for violence. although their refusal to move on when told to by police could fall within misdemeanor. In both cases, arrested to get them off the street.
calls heard by police, in context of breaking windows, both to break windows and attack police - and failure to move on - and Hawkins unknown.