Alabama From Afar....

     A commentator writing in the newspaper The Hill (as in Capitol Hill) was in Alabama for the Selma Bridge Jubilee, and writes about the comparisons between the original Selma to Montgomery march and the one that is underway now. Those new marchers are protesting Alabama's Immigration and Voter I.D. laws, and are scheduled to reach the Capitol on Friday.
     Forgive me for being a sticker for accuracy, but at one point in her column "Ghosts of Alabama", MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney writes of the original Edmund Petttus Bridge crossing on Bloody Sunday:

Marchers were brutally beaten, children attacked with a water hose “strong enough to knock a branch off of a tree.”

       There was no shortage of brutality on the bridge that day, but I've never read, heard or seen any water hoses in that historic event. She must be thinking of Birmingham, where fire hoses were frequently used under Bull Conner to disperse crowds, including children.
     Were there water hoses in Selma that day and I've somehow missed it?