I’ll never forget during the Elian Gonzalez days in Florida a CNN guy was spouting off ridiculous propaganda in the street when suddenly a tear gas can popped off downwind and he starts coughing and running away. I was thinking “maybe that cop’s a non-liberal.” Because there were no riots near this guy.
We had about a hundred peacecreeps show up at the Air Guard base I worked at as a security policeman protesting nuclear weapons (of which we had none and hadn’t for years). Many a hickory shampoo was given that day and boy did we enjoy it. I imagine it was a small glimpse of being a Chicago cop at the 1968 DNC.