People v. Penn

The instant appeal arises out of incidents of alleged disorder connected with a racial protest by these defendants against illegal discrimination in the building trades unions. These incidents occurred on Eutgers Street and on an access road leading to a wire fence containing the entrance to a building site where public housing was in the course of construction.

On the basis of the evidence adduced at the trial, the court below found that these defendants darted into the path of trucks which were delivering construction material; some of them sat in front of and under the wheels of the trucks…