I was 12 at the time. Fond memories of the lefties getting some of their own medicine from Chicago’s finest. Dan Rather got clobbered too. My dad, a Republican (yes there are some in Chicago, akin to the number of Christians in Iraq) went down and got in to the convention with some Democrat credentials.
Despite the mayhem the “peaceniks” gave Chicago, the response by da mayor’s cops was mild in that not a single person was killed. Kudos to the men in blue who I am sure wanted to really kick some ass. Famous line by old man Daley at the press conference, “The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.”
LOL and thanks. That quote just adds to the, ahem, legend of Boss Daley.