Chief Batchelor. No; it wasn't cameras. They just wanted to stand there.
Mr. Griffin. What did you tell them?
Chief Batchelor. Since we couldn't get them in there, he told them if they would stay back, they could stay there. And there were some officers that were stationed along there to hold them back.
Mr. Griffin. But your original hope was that all of the news media people could be in the entrance to the garage?
Chief Batchelor. And they were scattered along here, too. Scattered along the entrance into the garage itself and along here, but some of them, there just wasn't room for them, and some got across here.
Mr. Griffin. How long did you remain downstairs on this second trip?
Chief Batchelor. I don't think this is the second trip. I think, well, I guess it is. But I came down here, and Stevenson and I looked this thing over.
Mr. Griffin. You are going to have to indicate in words.
Chief Batchelor. We looked over the basement to see that the security was in order. I noticed an officer at the Main Street ramp.
We walked up the Commerce Street ramp and noticed a crowd of people across Commerce Street, and was told by one of the supervisors that they were keeping them across there, and that they allowed no one on the side next to the police station of the city hall except officers. And the only people over here were either reservists or regular officers. They had officers across the street. Chief Lunday told me they had officers down at the courthouse across from the jail entrance. Was keeping that crowd back there.