When Parks refused to give up her seat, the police arrested her. As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked, "Why do you push us around?" She remembered him saying, "I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest.Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code. Although technically she had not taken a white-only seat. She had been in a colored section.Edgar Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and leader of the Pullman Porters Union, and her friend Clifford Durr bailed Parks out of jail the next evening.