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This is what happened in Chicago on March 20. A
handful of cops initially deployed to the demo at the
Federal Center were overwhelmed when 15,000 people,
including yours truly, espouza, and daughter more or
less spontaeneously and without any planning that I
have heard about, flowed over or around their
barricades and took over Lake Shore Drive. They
freaked out, called in cops from all over the city,
bottled us up on Chicago Ave (keeping us away from
Michigan Ave., the main shopping drag), and starting
busting people (500-800 of them) and heads. Every
antiwar demo afterwards they currounded with thousands
of riot police in full Robocop gear. There is a big
police brutality lawsuit about their misconduct. jks

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Chuck0 wrote:
> 
> >Overstressed police officers? This is the first
> time I've heard this 
> >theory! In fact, the police over-reaction was
> caused by an 
> >inexperienced police force which, like many police
> forces across the 
> >country at that time, didn't take activists
> seriously.
> 
> There were very few cops, and as the ones I talked
> to told me, they 
> were in way over their heads. At the end of the
> protest week, I 
> walked up to a gaggle of 'em and said "This wouldn't
> have happened in 
> New York. The NYPD would have surrounded the meeting
> site with 20,000 
> cops and no one would have gotten close." One
> answered, "The NYPD 
> knows crowd control. We don't have that kind of
> experience in the 
> west."
> 
> Doug
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