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Yes, the civil rights movement of the Deep South had a list of grievances, too - the right to vote and to attend better, integrated schools - but on the "Bloody Sunday" morning of March 7, 1965, all that Lewis and 600 other people wanted was to walk as free men and women across the Edmund Pettus Bridge without Alabama state troopers whacking the living daylights out of them.

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Meanwhile, the Oakland police department apparently has decided to come as Richard Daley's 1968 Chicago police force, with injured Iraq war vet Scott Olsen left looking like the civil rights protesters bloodied on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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David Pettus, a lawyer for Zvi Goffer, said the verdict was a disappointment and would be appealed.

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Yes, the civil rights movement of the Deep South had a list of grievances, too - the right to vote and to attend better, integrated schools - but on the "Bloody Sunday" morning of March 7, 1965, all that Lewis and 600 other people wanted was to walk as free men and women across the Edmund Pettus Bridge without Alabama state troopers whacking the living daylights out of them.

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"While we're disappointed with the jury's verdict, it was a very difficult case and we respect their decision," said David Pettus , a lawyer for Zvi Goffer.

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We would be allowed to go to the mall or the skate center, and a parent would come back and get us, says Pettus, 41.

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Educators add to the pressure by expecting more from students and parents, Pettus says.

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It was produced by Charlton Pettus, who has worked with Hilary Duff.

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Dawn Pettus, a stay-at-home mother of four in Florence, Ala., says she can't let her kids, ages 4 to 13, have the freedoms she had growing up in the same town.

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Yes, the civil rights movement of the Deep South had a list of grievances, too - the right to vote and to attend better, integrated schools - but on the "Bloody Sunday" morning of March 7, 1965, all that Lewis and 600 other people wanted was to walk as free men and women across the Edmund Pettus Bridge without Alabama state troopers whacking the living daylights out of them.

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