Protestors and police clashing at NATO summit Chicago

[lunasun]

Source: WGN news Local news

Protesters trying to push their way through a police line clashed with officers at the end of the anti-NATO march near McCormick Place.

The protesters threw items at officers and hit them with sticks. Police officers used batons to respond. At least two injured protesters were treated by volunteer medics on the scene.

Read more: http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-latest-nato-news-part2,0,3184941.htmlstory

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Shortly after Iraq war Veterans left the area the protestors and police started to clash
The Iraq vet was large march AND was very peaceful and the war vets threw their metals to the NATO summit and asked everyone to head west after it ended

Some there said no and got firm in their position and then the clashes with police
Cornering crowd and pushing everyone out with sound more police than protestors that stayed after march
Using sound wave ALRads? to move the protestors now the police drop their shields and can not hear the sound
goin down now!

[truedelphi]

1. Want to know the stateof our nation regarding "democracy"

Google protests plus Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, or just about anywhere and notice that the police in those nations are not dressed up like Darth Vader on a kill mission.

The cops in other nations don't have more than a beret on their heads. Here the cops look like they are facing a nuclear threat.

And the good ol' USA employs the "non-lethal" weaponry like ALRads.

[Stuart G]

2. Another link, different source...MSNBC and WMAQ and NBC

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/20/11777541-life-over-war-us-veterans-return-medals-at-nato-summit?lite

Do not know if this report accurate, but might be..
If 20 or 30 out of 2000 - 10,000 want to cause trouble by throwing stuff at police...that would sound correct..
One percent cause trouble, 99 percent ok..sound familiar???

[lunasun]

5. All the reports here in Chicago say the same estimate about 100 protestors 400 Cops

Police have the gas masks out now to but have not used gas or spray

Some of the local reporters here are a little too hyper (non foxalso) saying stuff like:get the bikes out of there they can be used as weapons move anyone on bike out to reporters on the ground

- no one is smashing windows but it is a big standoff here-looks state police run
and many protestors are ready for gas ie masks or scarfs with vinegar on their faces

They are on main streets not sidewalks downtown
They are stopping police line as the police corner in but clashing less back and forth

[may3rd]

12. The meda isn't really covering this protest

They could make two dozen protesters look like 2,000 if they choose to do so.

[Saturday]

3. It was a minor pushing match.

Protesters wanted to go East towards the NATO meeting. Police wouldn't let them. Let's not make it bigger than it was.

[Stuart G]

4. I do not know, perhaps they did not throw anything..nt

[lunasun]

6. you can see yourself they were but not now

http://www.wgntv.com/news/livestreaming/
but looks like it is gonna be over -many are walking away from confrontation and police stopped closing in

[may3rd]

13. most in the movement prefer to catch a money shot with their camera phones.

They should save it for the convention coverage, media isn't beating life into this dead horse

[lib2DaBone]

7. The more the Bankers fail... the harder they will clamp down...

The Bankers will struggle to maintain their supremecy .....no matter what.

The 1% have never had to eat Ramen noodles.. or sleep in apartment with no heat.. or walk to the store... or sufffer because they couldnt afford even basic health care.

The 1% exist only because they suck the life out of the Elderly, school childen and the working poor.

The 1% will work to make damm sure that you stay ignorant and remain firmly trapped in their matrix.

[kickysnana]

8. Among the papers at my late Chicagoan father-in-law had was a reciept for an ER trip in 1968.

It is now part of the family history. He was born during the 1919 Chicago Riot and married late a gal who had recently fled the Detroit WWII riot. Her family had fled Indianapolis for Detroit when the clan took over there ca 1921. The family had originally been from KY Bourbon Country, free blacks, merchants and silversmiths who moved in groups before, and after the Civil War to Indianapolis. Before they were in KY they lived with the on Rev War Land grants, but had to flee first to the safety of the Native Americans in GA to outrun the slavers and then eventually to KY.They were able to serve in the Revolution as free blacks, first cousins to to Ethan Allen.

Wonder what is the eventual fate of my tri-racial kids and grand-kids? I wanted to move out of the country in 2000 but so far I have been outvoted as the kids who are still doing OK here.

[lunasun]

10. Know a lot of folks who remember stories about the time spent with Native Americans from their elder

relatives .Some moved out west when the tribes relocated and mixed and stayed with them;other families it sounds like took refuge for a time and moved on which is how your history sounds.

Glad to see you are keeping the info alive, and preserving the paper - not throwing away in disgust.

Chicago '68 things looked so bad then here and yet hope was kept alive so keep it alive for the grandkids now,

I get worried like that too but my spouse sez you have to hope and so many times it looked so dark,
and yet here we are

[Magoo48]

9. It takes two armed groups to "clash". Let's face it, authoritarians have control issues.

When they don't get their way, they riot. The armed bullies of the Black and Blue Gang, which has a chapter in every American city, simply rename their riots. Remember, We The People pay the Black and Blue gangsters to treat us this way. Sounds a little crazy, yes?

[may3rd]

11. ""...Shortly after Iraq war Veterans left the area the protesters and police started to clash..""

It seems both sides "support the troops" but I doubt the chicago police were the first to throw bricks.

jmo

[unkachuck]

14. "The protesters threw items at officers and hit them with sticks."

Why don't I believe this? Could it have something to do with WGN, Tribune and scurvy rickets? As my hero, Curly, would say,

"Well ain't that a coinci-dunk?"