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Robert Banks arrested
12022-11-18T03:06:42+00:00Anonymous16plain2023-11-14T20:51:09+00:00AnonymousRobert Banks, a twenty-two-year-old Black man, was recorded in the Washington Heights Magistrates Court docket book as charged with disorderly conduct on March 20. That appearance was mentioned in the New York Herald Tribune and Home Newson March 21 and the New York Age on March 30. He also appeared in the list of those arrested published in the Atlanta World, Afro-American, and Norfolk Journal and Guide, but not in any of the lists published in white newspapers. Banks 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 Banks was not suggests he had not been arrested for alleged looting. 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 Banks was arrested above 130th Street but there was no information on exactly where or when police took him into custody.
Magistrate Ford convicted Banks and sentenced him to one month in the Workhouse.
Banks' address was recorded as 205 West 112th Street.