Clark Peters

He said, you're not going anywhere.

then bang the gavel and call for the next case.

So I felt insignificant.

I felt like an ant feeling the shadow of a foot coming down on top of me.

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.