Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935Main MenuREAD ME: Help Navigating This BookIntroductionOn the StreetsIn the CourtsUnder InvestigationThe Mayor's Commission on Conditions in HarlemOver TimeEventsSourcesStephen Robertsona1bf8804093bc01e94a0485d9f3510bb8508e3bfStanford University Press
Black men arrested for possession of a weapon (3)
12022-12-05T15:59:09+00:00Anonymous16plain2023-10-25T02:23:31+00:00AnonymousAfter arresting three Black men for other alleged offenses, police also charged them with possession of a weapon. In these cases, both charges were recorded in the court docket books (more of those arrested in the disorder may have faced multiple charges, but only those for which both charges are in a docket book have been treated as such in this study). In the analysis of the events of the disorder, those men have been categorized in terms of those other offenses rather than possession of a weapon. A magistrate sent Arthur Killen to the Court of Special Sessions for trial on both malicious mischief, for allegedly breaking windows, and possession of a weapon. However, when the two other men were arraigned in court, magistrates put the prosecutions for their two alleged offenses on different paths through the legal system. They sent both men for trial in the Court of Special Sessions for possessing a weapon, while sending Raymond Easley to the grand jury to face a charge of burglary and convicting Hashi Mohammed of disorderly conduct.