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@elephant
i'm sure you know i speak of daley pere..
actually that was an argument that was in place in '68, that ayers, dohrn, hoffman etc were some sort of agents provac...and was disproved during julius hoffman's show trial
it was a police riot, pure & simple....
-- patg
And I am sure that you know of the film footage from the 1968 Convention floor, with old man Daley screaming at the speaker on the podium who was denouncing the Chicago cops, while Daley, surrounded by Bill and Richie was yelling, telling him to shut up.
And later, "Da police of da City of Chicago are not here to cause disorder. Dey're here to preserve disorder."
Anyway, there were two different incidents. August 1968, in Grant Park, in front of the Michigan Avenue hotels, where Ayers was arrested and he claims (falsely?) to have been "beaten bloody."
Then, there were the October, 1969 "Days of Rage," with such aimless violence and destruction that those paragons of civic virtue, the Black Panthers, denounced the event and the Weather Underground. The only part of the Days of Rage event that happened in Grant Park was the women's "auxilliary" of the WU held a small rally there that the cops busted up.
