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INDEX OF ATTACHMENTS

1. Cincinnati Police District and Census Tract Map.
2. Breakdown of Census Tracts by Suburban area.
3. Laws governing Control of Mobs and Riots.
4. Case notes on riot cases.

5. Copy of the Riot Act.

6. Procedure to follow in requesting the National Guard.
7. Copy of letter requesting National Guard.

8. Daily Personnel strength during the riot June 11-19.
9. Summary of offenses reported to police during riot.
10. Summary and analysis of arrests during the riot.
11. Summary and analysis of injuries during the riot.

12. Statistics on arrests made during the riot.

13. Damages and costs incurred by the City during the riot.

14. Number of police and fire vehicles damaged and cost of repair.

15. Fire Dept. listing of fire damage during riot.

16. Weather Bureau report for week of June 11.

17. Report of Red Cross Services June 13–17.

18. Letter of encouragement sent to Police-Community Relations members dur-
ing the riot.

19. Copy of handbill passed out at Rockdale and Reading meeting June 12.

20. Copy of first 11 demands of Negro community and action taken.

21. Copy of 20 demands presented to CHRC by H. Rap Brown.

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(Table 94 discontinued-See Table 76A)

TABLE 95.-Census tracts composing the suburban areas of Cincinnati (as prepared by the Dept. of Sociology, University of Cincinnati, and revised March 8, 1960)

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Ohio General Code 3761.01. Definitions. (G.C. 6278, 6279)

As used in Sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code:

a. "Mob" means a collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to anyone, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law.

b. "Lynching" means an act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person. c. "Serious injury" means such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. 2. Riot:

Ohio General Code 3761.13. Prohibition Against Riot. (G.C. 12809)

No person shall assemble with two or more others to do an unlawful act with force and violence, or do such unlawful act or agree with each other to do so and make preparation or movement therefor, or continue together after proclamation is made as provided to Section 3761.14, of the Revised Code, or is prevented from so being made by rioters.

3. Riot proclamation

Ohio General Code 3761.14. Dispersing Riotous Assembly.

"I command you, in the name of the State of Ohio, to disperse and depart to your several homes or places of lawful employment."

4. Criminal syndicalism

Ohio General Code 2923.12. Criminal Syndicalism. (G.C. 13421-23) As used in Sections 2923.13 to 2923.15, inclusive, of the Revised Code: "Criminal syndicalism" is the doctrine which advocates crime; sabotage, which is defined as the malicious injury or destruction of the property of another; violence; or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform.

B. City ordinances which may apply at disorderly crowd scenes

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1. A conviction for rioting is not warranted where the record discloses that thirty or more persons were assembled together in violation of an injunction, but does not disclose that the accused either assembled together to do any unlawful act, or, after being assembled together, agreed with each other to do any such act: State v. Smith 97 App 86, 55 00 314, 121 NE (2d) 199.

2. Proof that thirty or more persons assembled together in violation of an injunction does not, of itself make out a prima facie cause of rioting; State v. Smith, 97 App 86, 55 00 314, 121 NE (2d) 199.

3. Under an indictment for rioting, the prosecution has the burden of proving every essential element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt, including that three or more persons assembled and that they committed riotous acts: State v. Smith, 97 App 86, 55 00 314, 121 NE (2d) 199.

4. Violation of an injunction is an offense separate and distinct from the crime of rioting: State v. Smith 97 App 86, 55 00 314, 121 NE (2d) 199.

RIOT ACT

In accordance with Section 3761.14, of the Revised Code of the State of Ohio, I, Mayor or Sheriff of this (City, Village of County) hereby proclaim this gathering to be a riotous and unlawful assembly and do hereby command each and all of you in the name of the State of Ohio, to immediately disperse and depart to your several homes or places of lawful employment.

I hereby, call upon all law enforcement officers throughout the County of Hamilton, to aid and assist in dispersing and taking into custody all persons engaging in this riotous assembly.

STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, COLUMBUS

PROCLAMATION

Whereas, there exists in the City of Cincinnati, suburban municipalities and County of Hamilton, State of Ohio, a state of tumult, riot and other emergency, and there are present therein tumultous, riotous and unlawful assemblies and bodies of men acting together with intent to commit felony or to do or offer violence to person or property or by force and violence break the laws of the State of Ohio and the United States of America; and

Whereas, the Honorable Walton H. Bachrach, Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, in the exercise of emergency powers authorized by the Council of the City of Cin

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