Elderly man with bloodied head (Wilfrid Lapierre) being arrested and put into patrol car by two policemen after protesting the banking crisis
Description:
From a series of photographs labeled "Protest in Providence (elder arrest)." The man (Wilfrid Lapierre) had entered the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce Building with a rolled up American flag to confront Gov. Bruce G. Sundlun about the banking crisis, got into a fight with a security officer and was arrested.
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