First Wave Feminists Engaged in Assault of Police Officers and Slapped Them in the Face to Get Prison Time

The first wave feminists used a strategy called "technical assault" where they were slapping and assaulting police officers in broad daylight in order to get arrested and in the following passage from a first wave feminist you can see the police officers were pretty much letting them hit them. Someone with money and influence must have been telling the police officers to take it easy on these women or something because if a man slapped a police officer they would have shot the guy on the spot. 

http://books.google.com/books?id=rnkEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA386&lpg=PA386&dq=suffragettes+"technical+assault"&source=bl&ots=a2WqHKknbx&sig=zFrtYZETwC9_lDwLV2kIWEoSHCY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5Lt1UoXjNvHJsQSZmIKYBQ&ved=0CHsQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=suffragettes%20%22technical%20assault%22&f=false