Claim: Ramón Lorenzo Falcón was known for personally supervising repressive action against protests such as the May Day demonstration organized by FORA in 1909.
Evidence: Falcón became known for personally supervising repressive action against protests, and his sabre-wielding officers, as "cossacks." The most violent such confrontation up to then took place during a May Day demonstration organized in 1909 by FORA, an anarchist labor organization.