OSUGI insisted that, as the policemen who had been waylaying him and his comrades tried to take away red flags, violently ordering them to roll up the flags, they resisted the policeman shouting, 'It is a robbery to take away people's possessions without reason.'
また大杉は、待ち伏せた警官が「旗を巻け」と叫んで赤旗を奪おうとしたので、「理由なく所有権を取るのは強盗である」と叫んで争った旨を主張した。