Later, back at the Gaston Motel, Forman found Wyatt Tee Walker and Dorothy Cotton in high spirits, “jumping up and down, elated.” Forman later wrote: “They said over and over again, ‘We’ve got a movement. We’ve got a movement. We had some police brutality. They brought out the dogs. We’ve got a movement.’” Forman was disgusted, seeing no reason to celebrate police brutality, even if it did generate valuable news coverage.
