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Old 10-11-2013, 04:44 PM
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Scuttlebutt at the time was that Nixon (founder of the EPA) personally ordered the dozers in rather than a fleet of towtrucks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_Protests

Looks like it was almost 13,000 arrested not 30,000.
Impressive number either way. It's not easy arresting 13,000 people without having to shoot a bunch of them. It they hadn't been nice well-behaved middle-class boomers they couldn't have done it.
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