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Trang chủ / Đề mục / Thẻ George Cooper 19
- ADAPT (298)
Title: Arresting Theater By JIM FINKELSTEIN, Free Press Staff Writer An estimated 25 handicapped protesters were arrested Tuesday as they charged police guarding the McNamara Federal Building Tuesday in a third day of what one protester called "theater" over public transit's limited use of lift-equipped vehicles. Wave after wave of the estimated 100 protesters — many in wheelchairs and paralyzed, missing limbs, or suffering nerve disorders — were hauled away in lift-equipped vans while police photographers recorded the scene to ensure the protesters were properly arrested. Michael Auberger, a spokesman for the 100-member American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation, vowed Tuesday that "we're going to escalate" the protest today and Thursday as the convention of the American Public Transit Association concludes at the Westin Hotel. “Everyone's willing to go" to jail. he added, hinting that the protest may move to the Westin today. Seventeen ADAPT members were arrested Monday as they tried to crawl aboard city buses to protest the lack of wheelchair equipment on 80 of 100 buses recently purchased by the city. THE DEMONSTRATORS want lift equipment on all new buses and trains purchased by U.S. public transit systems. The transit association won a court case to prevent more extensive federal regulations requiring lift equipment. Tuesday, the protesters began chanting slogans in front of the McNamara Federal Building just before 1 p.m. ADAPT spokespersons said the group wanted to present a position paper to Sen. Donald Riegle, D-Mich., whose offices are in the building. They refused a police offer to let two representatives meet with Riegle's aides, saying they wanted to send no fewer than nine. Police blocked the entrance and then began arresting protesters who blocked the entrance — both wheelchair users and non-handicapped ADAPT aides. Deputy Police Chief James Ingram said "a couple of hundred" police officers were given special training in arresting people who use wheelchairs. PHOTOS: Photo #1 Free Press Photo by GEORGE WALDMAN: A group of about 10 protesters chant out on the sidewalk in front of a large building. In front Bernard Baker and Stephanie Thomas, next row Kristen? (sitting alone), Fred (standing) & unknown, Renata Conrad (in manual) Marcos Quesada in wheelchairs. And Cathy Thomas and others in the background. Caption reads: Wheelchair-bound protesters chant outside the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit. Photo #2: Free Press Photo by MANNY CRISOSTOMO Two uniformed police officers stand behind a man in a wheelchair (George Cooper) holding his push handles. The police are looking off into the distance and George holds a poster in his teeth that says "...With Liberty and Justice for All?" Caption reads: Detroit police officers carry George Cooper, of Irving, Tex., away from the scene. Photo #3: Free Press Photo by MANNY CRISOSTOMO A woman in a wheelchair (Paulette Patterson) holding the Holy Bible to her chest and with a pained and tearful cry, is being loaded onto a a lift equipped vehicle. Caption reads: An unidentified protester clutches her Bible as she's arrested. Photo #4 Free Press Photo by MANNY CRISOSTOMO A uniformed officer stands jauntily leaning on a barricade, on the other side of which are two ADAPT protesters in wheelchairs (Rick James and an unidentified woman.) Rick has a very intense expression on his face. Caption reads: Rick James, of Utah, left, watches Lt. Greg George, a federal policeman, at a barricade at the McNamara Federal Building. - ADAPT (336)
A sun logo The Arizona Republic copyright 1987 The Arizona Republic Tuesday, April 7, 1987, Phoenix Arizona 2 PHOTOs. Top photo by Sean Brady/Republic: In the foreground two plain clothes police men tip someone in a power wheelchair back on their back wheels. One is in the back holding the push handles and looking careful but determined. The other is leaning forward reaching for something around the footrests, perhaps the breaks. The person in the wheelchair has their hands in their lap by their side. To their left another plain clothes police man is tipping another power wheelchair user [George Roberts] onto his back wheels. George is wearing mirror sun glasses and grimacing, his feet crossed as his legs spam. To George's left another plain clothes officer is holding the handles of a woman [Loretta DuFriend] in a power chair and watching his comrades with amazed expression. Behind these two is a TV cameraman filming. On the sidewalk behind all this other ADAPT protesters sit; some are inside the area the police has taped off, others are just outside the tape. Lower photo by AP: Four ADAPT protesters [Lonnie Johnson, Rand Metcalfe, George Roberts and Stephanie Thomas] sit in a row, slightly smiling and holding out one arm with a fist and their thumb or finger extended. Lonnie has a sign that reads "A PART OF, NOT APART FROM" All wear their dark ADAPT T-shirts with the no steps logo. Handicapped get heave-ho Phoenix policemen AI Ramirez, A.J. Miller, Al Madrid and Ted McCreary (from left) forcibly remove handicapped protesters from the street in front of the downtown Hyatt Regency while other members of American Disabled tor Accessible Public Transit demonstrate their solidarity with the protesters. Five members of the group were arrested Monday in front of the Hyatt on disorderly-conduct charges. Story, B1. - ADAPT (372)
A large crowd of protesters fill most of the street in front of a large city building. Most are in wheelchairs but there are walking people there too, as well as camera people and other media types. In a corner of the foreground a group of police officers in dark uniforms and caps, cluster in formation facing the protesters. The protesters are ignoring them. George Cooper (in a manual chair and white hat) talks with two other wheelchair users. Behind them you can see left shoulder of George Roberts (in green T-shirt) being pushed by someone. A woman in a wheelchair with a child is behind him, and behind her and a man in a yellow t-shirt is Jim Parker with a white headband, back to the camera. To his left is Don Clubb in a white T-shirt. Behind a man in a purple t-shirt, over his head you can see Kathy Thomas with short grey hair, and beside her is Loretta Dufriend in a green shirt. - ADAPT (410)
PHOTO: A single file line of wheelchairs in the middle of a street (see ADAPT 407). Behind them is a somewhat desolate city view. From Left to right: A man in a motorized wheelchair with an ADAPT sticker on the side, then Patty Leffingwell in a motorized chair wearing an ADAPT headband over her hat and holding a bag. On the side of her chair are ADAPT stickers including one that reads "steps spell discrimination" with the ADAPT no steps logo. In front of her is George Cooper in a manual wheelchair; he is an older man wearing a green ADAPT shirt and he has strong looking biceps. In front of him is Greg Buchannan in a motorized wheelchair with the "steps" bumper sticker. Beside him is an attendant who is handing him a drink.