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Why was the brutal Sheriff Jim Clark valuable to Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement while the more restrained Police Chief of Albany, Georgia, Laurie Pritchet, who ordered his officers to arrest demonstrators gently and without hurting them, a danger to the Civil Rights Movement?

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Explanation: He was one of the officials responsible for the violent arrests of civil rights protesters during the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965, and is remembered for being a violent racist whose brutal tactics included using cattle prods against unarmed civil rights supporters.