Hoping to quell further violence, Davis reminded police that a legal protest permit had been obtained and requested that all police leave the park. In response, the officers moved in and beat Davis unconscious....
Davis, Dellinger, Hayden, Black Panther activist Bobby Seale and four other protest organizers, known as the Chicago Eight, were charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines to incite a riot and brought to trial. After Seale complained about being denied his right to choose his own lawyer, the judge ordered him to appear before the jury each day bound, gagged and chained to a chair.
Even more fun is the history of the 68 DEM convention
https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/1968-democratic-convention
I remember watching that on TV at the time, but I was too young to know what was really happening. But old enough to know it was important. I went to a talk by Abbie Hoffman a few years later and was still trying to figure it all out. There is nothing new under the sun.
For the most art, they were hippies.
People liked to see hippies getting their heads bashed in.
Yippies, to be precise.
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