State v. Oliver

On April 7, 1964, at Saywell Avenue and Lakeview Road in Cleveland, Ohio, on or near the site of a new school building under construction, a group of people, estimated variously from five hundred to twenty-three hundred, gathered. This group sought to protest the construction of the school at this location. A large force of police was on hand to maintain order. The police officers, finding it necessary to disperse the crowd in order to maintain the peace and permit the orderly continuation of the construction of the school, ordered the crowd to disperse. The defendants resisted the dispersal…