Clark Peters

And if it wasn't for groups like the ACLU and the Urban League, I don't know what I would have done.

I walked out of that courtroom and

in a daze, heartbroken, eyes full of tears, thinking, what just happened?

I couldn't believe it.

And someone's calling my name and they're saying,

Would you like to have your retrial now?

And this person guided me to another courtroom.

Into which, when we got to this courtroom, it was full of smoke because people smoked cigarettes back in those days.

There was cheering coming from the gallery.

And I walked into this courtroom and

three tiers.

At the top, there's a long-haired hippie judge, and he's got a line of people in front of him, and he's processing them.

He's saying, Jane Doe, you're arrested for obstructing police lines.

How do you plead?

Not guilty.

He slammed the gavel, boom, next, you know, next.

And this is all happening in less than an hour.

Of course I was gaveled not guilty, you know, and they gave me back my gas mask and my things and I hightailed it out of there.

You know, to be exposed to our system like that with no evidence.

information as to how our legal system is supposed to work, you know, to be taken up and then dropped down and then saved, it's a hell of an emotional roller coaster for the day.