Yes...Michigan and Cermak is right by McCormick place...though I don't think that was the center of the protests that day.
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 5:27 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Pics from the NATO Protest there was some disproportionate force. But on the *whole* Chicago did better than I expected. What was so important about Michigan and Cernak though? Getting to close to McCormick Place and triggering security concerns I am guessing? Been meaning to look that up. That might actually be kind of legitimate if so, and if that's what it was then the protesters trying to push through the police were the problem imho. In that *particular* situation> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Eric Roberts < > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > > Let me find the video on Youtube where the cops were kittling and > > beating the protestors... > > > I only watched the first, but it sure looked like the protesters were > trying top break the line and the police responded. There really isn't > enough context to judge wether the force they used was reasonable, > maybe it wasn't. > > But this pretty clearly isn't a case of "aw those poor little peaceful > protesters" to me. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351043 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
