Civil rights leader Marion Barry Jr. and two colleagues were arrested in the Tenth Precinct Thursday night for "failure to move on" minutes after leaving a top-level meeting of local rights groups.
The arrests occurred at 9 p.m. at 14th and Girard streets NW.
Accounts of the incident given yesterday by the police and by Barry, the local director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, differed widely.
Barry said he and the other two men were walking north on 14th Street when they came to a red light.
"They (the officers) told us to get on . . . very roughly," said Barry. "We said the light was red. The officer's dog was growling."
-- May 28, 1966
