Attorney General John Mitchell claimed that his speech last week to the California Peace Officers' Association amounted to a plea for restraint by lawmen in their confrontations with political dissenters, and to be sure much of the speech was exactly that. But what Mitchell had to say in San Francisco contained a couple of unhappy postscripts to the mass arrests during Washington's Mayday protest. More than 12,000 people were rounded up, often indiscriminately, herded into makeshift compounds and held as long as 36 hours with neither arraignment nor the chance to raise bail. To clear the Washington streets, Police...
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