![]() He said that Caroline County was a small community where whites and blacks were mixed together and helped one another. He said that he never found out why the police picked on him and Mildred and not the other couples, but as emphasized in the film, he believes that somebody who didn't like them talked. "Yeah, I know a few," said Richard Loving at the time. According to Virginia law, it didn't matter that they had gotten married out of state in Washington, D.C. "They asked Richard who was that woman he was sleepin' with," states Mildred, "and I said, 'I'm his wife,' and the sheriff said, 'Not here you're not,' and he said, 'C'mon, let's go.'" Mildred attempted to show the police the marriage certificate hanging on the bedroom wall, but the certificate was used against them as evidence that they were guilty in Virginia of "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth." This was the charge that was levied against them. "When we got up they were standing beside the bed, with flashlights." I heard 'em and before I could get up, they just broke the door and came on in," recalls Richard. ![]() "They came one night and they knocked a couple times. ![]() ![]() Instead, the officers found them asleep in their bed. in hopes of catching them having sex, which would put them in violation of another Virginia law. On July 14, 1958, just a few weeks after they got married, Sheriff Garnett Brooks and two deputies raided their Caroline County home at approximately 2 a.m. ![]()
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