This resulted in Causation over a thousand arrests Arrest , and , as the jails and holding Defending areas filled Filling with arrested Arrest students , the Birmingham Police Department , led by Eugene `` Bull '' Connor , used Using high-pressure water hoses and police attack dogs on the children and adult bystanders .

Not all of the bystanders were peaceful , despite the avowed Statement intentions of SCLC to hold Defending a completely nonviolent walk , but the students held Defending to the nonviolent premise .

As rescuers began Process_start working Employment at the school , Kehoe drove Motion up , stopped Process_end , and used Using a rifle to detonate Attack dynamite inside his shrapnel-filled truck , killing Killing himself , the school superintendent , and several others nearby , as well as injuring Bodily_harm more bystanders .

Fifty-eight worshipers , priests , policemen , and bystanders were killed Killing and seventy-eight were wounded Bodily_harm or maimed Bodily_harm .

When Israeli volunteers on the scene gave the boy assistance , their action was greeted by bystanders with expressions of resentment .