[sailor76]

Wood shampoo’s for e’rybody.

That's right EVERYBODY.....

I was there.

I lived in Chicago then and went down just to look around and what I saw was disgusting. The police were out of control, broken cameras and film covered the streets. I saw a guy take a photo and Bamo, 10 cops were beating him...for taking a picture.

Anyone within reach of the cops got beaten and the tear gas wafted up to the floors of the Hilton hotel that housed candidates and delegates. Most of the cops removed their badges and name tags so you couldn't identify them later either.

It was so bad LBJ (Dem) commissioned Chicago lawyer, Daniel Walker, to head a team of over 200 people, who interviewed more than 1,400 witnesses to the events and studied FBI reports and film of the confrontations.

The report released on December 1, 1968, characterized the convention violence as a “police riot”

And remember, that's a Dem President investigating the police of a Dem Mayor.

Walker went on to run for Gov of IL as an independent and win. Walker also eventually went to prison but not as Governor.

[Chode]

i used to live in Bayou Village on 27th and Coconut, all gone now...

[knarf]

I had just gotten out of the Army in November '67 and I was transitioning into love hippy ... non violent, smoke a lot of dope, get laid a lot and every thing was a party

I saw this on TV, and there was some anti-war protesting going on in Boston at the time, but nothing like Chicago

I didn't really wake up until I met Jesus in '81

[dfwgator]

Walker went on to run for Gov of IL as an independent and win. Walker also eventually went to prison

Are there any Illinois governors that ultimately didn't wind up in prison?

[Cap'n Crunch]

Those were equal opportunity beat downs. Chicago PD started political correctness.