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James Lloyd arrested
Lord was listed among those charged with riot, the initial charge recorded for many of those arrested during the disorder. Several of the others listed as facing that charge were identified as also charged with burglary; that Lord was not suggests he had not been arrested for alleged looting. If the man in question was Lloyd, the change in charge to disorderly conduct cast him not as a participant in inciting others, breaking windows, looting, or assault, but as a member of the crowds police encountered on the street, perhaps near outbreaks of violence, and arrested either mistaking them for participants or to get them off the streets. His appearance in the Washington Heights Court indicated that Lloyd was arrested above 130th Street, but there is no information on exactly where or when police took him into custody.
Magistrate Renaud convicted Lloyd and sentenced him to six months in the Workhouse, the maximum sentence for disorderly conduct. He was one of only twelve of the seventy-seven convicted to receive a term of imprisonment of six months or longer, with only three others convicted of disorderly conduct. There was nothing in the surviving information about the circumstances of his arrest that explains that sentence. It could be that he had a criminal record, as did the man who received the longest sentence, Edward Larry.
Lloyd's address was recorded as 7 Ludlow Street. At the bottom of Manhattan, in the Lower East Side, this was an unusual residence for a Black New Yorker, far further from Harlem than the homes of most of those arrested during the disorder.