The Massachusetts and Pennsylvania Police stepped in; eventually, students from the Maryland College created a huge human barrier to help the women to pass. Paul, with her experience using police mistreatment and brutality for publicity purposes in Britain, saw an opportunity to boost sympathy for the women's cause. She quickly mobilized public dialogue about the police response to the women's demonstration, producing greater awareness and sympathy for National American Woman Suffrage Association. ... She did not eat for a period of 24 hours where she then threatened to the police th...
It mentioned the brutalities of the police officers and abuses inflicted on demonstrators. ... Sullivan felt that in 3rd and 6th paragraph of the advertisement mention of "police- and "they- implied him. ... Sullivan's argument in the case was that he was associated because of the mention of police and that the statements were false. ... The aim was to discourage not false but true accounts of life under a system of white supremacy: stories about men being lynched for trying to vote; about cynical judges using the law to suppress constitutional rights, about police chiefs turning at...