The metal detectors, bag searches and armed bailiffs that are standard in courthouses today—this is where it started.
In a courtroom in San Rafael, California in 1970, during a trial involving inmates from San Quentin prison. A spectator smuggled in guns—weapons purchased by counterculture activist Angela Davis. The inmates took Judge Harold Haley, prosecutor Gary Thomas and three women jurors hostage, herding them into a getaway van.
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