Posted on 06/09/2024 6:16:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chicago police and other city officials have been saying for months that the Democratic National Convention in August will not be anything like the riots of 1968.
“This will not be 1968,” said Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling. “Our response as a Chicago Police Department will be a lot more deliberate … a lot more controlled because our officers are being trained in the best way possible to respond to any level of civil unrest.”
Snelling is not wrong. Chicago in 1968 was a seething mass of anger, rage, and unrest. Riots in April following the death of Martin Luther King had torched several city blocks. Often a forgotten footnote to the convention riots of that year, the unrest in April set the stage for what happened during the Democratic National Convention.
Mayor Daley promised that there would be law and order during the event. Unlike today when demonstrators are assisted by the city to find the best location from which to disrupt the proceedings, the 10,000 yippies, hippies, Communists, and other anti-war protesters who traveled to Chicago were on their own.
It could have been a lot worse. Several civil rights groups decided not to come to the convention fearing violence. What the Walker Report on the convention riots called a "police riot" was an overreaction to the blood-curdling threats and rhetoric coming from some fringe elements of the anti-war movement.
The threats to the City were varied. Provocative and inflammatory statements, made in connection with activities planned for convention week, were published and widely disseminated. There were also intelligence reports from informants.
Some of this information was absurd, like the reported plan to contaminate the city's water supply with LSD. But some were serious:
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Dems aren’t having a convention anywhere. It will be a zooming pre taped coronation.
yup, it’s gonna be epic...
One think the Dems should remember is we now have amateur cinematographers——everyone——with cell phones.
“The whole world is watching” won’t have to rely on the three networks and one minor UHF one as in 1968.
It seems a much larger possibility now that guns will be brought to the “demonstrations” and used if they want that blood in the streets. They can get enough people high on Meth to actually be prone to shoot at the police without putting the actual instigators in the line of fire or of return fire.
But all should remember that the old antiwar riots ended rather abruptly with those four idiots attacking the National Guard guys and getting shot dead in Ohio.
Separate the Marxist leaders from the pack as quickly as possible to create confusion amongst the “useful idiots.” They will just go home.
“What moron chose the cesspool of Milwaukee?”
No kidding. I knew a young woman from Milwaukee. She was a leftist to the bone. They could have just as well picked San Fran or NYC.
Probably thought it would mistakenly hold WI for Trump
The riots helped Nixon but not by much nationally. Didn’t he actually win in IL in 1968?
Maybe devotees of Pabst Blue Ribbon were nostalgic for Milwaukee
But how will they be able to tell this violence from their normal day to day violence?
Less cops due to defund the police, more wackos, not allowed to arrest the wackos and even if you do, they’re out in a few hours. Hmmm
<>This time the cops won’t do shit.<>
One thing is for sure. CPD will not protect property nor law-abiding citizens.
Great Point.
And that’s a poser.
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