Richard Daley: The Chicago Police Riots

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Chicago was an American city.[1] Forty-seven years ago, The Democratic Convention of 1968, in Chicago, seemed to approve the nastiest doubts of both extremes of the political commotion. America in 1968 was at conflict in Vietnam, and it was a battle that was getting more frustrated by the youths. The Chicago mayor, Richard Daley, an old-fashioned Democratic political, infuriated by anti-Vietnam war protestors outside the Democratic convention, and commended his police officers to stop and arrests the protests. In some ways it had been labeled as a police riot: the Chicago police was marching down toward the protestors, in riot gear and wielding night sticks and firing tear gas, aimlessly fractured the heads of innocent eyewitnesses and newsmen

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