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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.

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Thursday 11 July 2013

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Thursday 3 August 2017

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ADAPT - American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit, disorderly conduct, George Cooper, George Roberts, Gil Casarez, Lonnie Smith, Lorenzo Thompson, Loretta Dufriend, Rand Metcalf, Stephanie Thomas

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