protest violence Quotes
Outside the convention, there were demonstrations against the Vietnam War. The Police of Chicago under the direction of Mayor Daily tried to break up the demonstrations and created what the Kener investigation called a “police riot.” The techniques the Chicago police used were those similar to those of dictatorships and many of the delegates could see what was really going on outside via TV sets in their hotel rooms.
The major police union in NYC. The Mayor had run on a campaign of police reform with Lynch one of his most virulent political enemies. The killer who came to New York was very disturbed over the spate of police killings of unarmed Black boys and young men for which there were no indictments or other actions of accountability. One of these was a homicide committed by a New York police officer who, against Police regulations used a choke hold on victim while 4 other officers were restraint him as he choked to death. There were no charges files, even after the coroner had declared the death a homicide. There were major demonstrations and protests in New York and elsewhere and the Mayor had defended the right of citizens to peacefully protest, Lynch’s “logic” was that the mayor’s softness against demonstrations against the police encouraged the Baltimore man to come to New York and murder the 2 police officers. The Mayors clear and unmistakable disapproval of the violence against police {642497} somehow was taken as the opposite by Lynch and other New York police officers.
