St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-08-28
81. PouIifeS Air
Views Al NAACP
Moss Meefino
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in the arrest-I know their names
Yost and Morehead.
MIR. Frank Smith
I remember some time ago an
other incident of police brutality
in almost the same area and at
the same time think called the
Chief and he vowed it wouldn't
happen again and all these officers
were to go through a human re-
lations school. 1t was unfortunate
that under the existing laws which
have been presented they have
been (Inaudible) were i'm
mediately beaten. Is that to be
the result of all people without
Identification. I'm not advocating
relaxing the law, I'm advocating
arresting a man and not beating
him for some personal grudge
against some individual. These
things should be taken Mr.. Chair
man, Chief Proetz, and you, AS
sistant Chief, should take into
consideration these things. Next
time someone is going to be hurt.
Chief Proetz said he didn't know
the underlying cause of this The
underlying cause is obvious. Two
days before my constitutional
rights were voted unconstitutional
by the city attorney. cannot move
out of the ghetto, you won't allow
me to get out but you come into
the ghetto and beat me because I
don't have Identification. What
more would we need to set off
riot.
Negroes, or any other Minority
group have a feeling of self pride
Of which we will protect. We have
always protected even to the cost
of lives and just because a man
puts on a uniform and says I am
a police officer does not destroy
that personal pride-will not.
think more care should be
given to the selection Of the men
you send out because we cannot
forget in twenty-four hours that
our civil rights have been denied
because Of some screwy decision
on the party of the city attorney
that says open occupancy is uncon-
stitutional.
We, in the preamble Of this open
occupancy lost the very thing you
are asking us to solve here today
that ghettos create crime.
This causes unnecessary staff
ing on the part of welfare and
protection on your part but that's
unconstitutional and yet you come
and say why, why do we have these
feelings,
We are not asking you, Chief
Proetz, to relax your law enforce
ment-I. above all, will assist you
in every way to assist the law but
let's do it on an even basis-let's
try it anyway. last sentence
inaudible).
Mr.. Bradley: They are uncivilized.
Mr.. Clarence Lewis: My name is
Clarence Lewis. I noticed it was
mentioned before of the fact of
lettering around the corners in
this neighborhood - Dale, Rondo,
Kent. Western wherever 1t may
be. I'm in business in this neigh
borhood and most of the persons
that I know that are upright cit
liens resent the fact that there
are plenty of concessions made
A violation in another neighbor-
hood is permitted to go on in our
neighborhood and I was just Won
dering why isn't the law enforced.
And another thing. in the paper
the other day I noticed that there
were either six or eight individuals
taken down to the police station
that were supposed to be directly
involved in the a-this so-called
riot up here and the paper stated
that there were three hundred
rioters and forty policemen. Evil
IDENTIFY there wasn't any spectators.
That's the first time I've ever
heard Laughter and applause
made end Of sentence inaudible).
Mr.. Clarence Lewis: This thing
they had in Hudson Wisconsin and
South St. Paul where these young
fellows had a little trouble out
there-I imagine there were quite
few spectators out there but
they weren't classified in the riot
and, you know, it's more or less
a stigma that's been pushed on
any situation that arises in a Ne
gro community. It's smeared or
thrown upon everyone in the in