A decision by a policeman's son to organize a reunion for the officers who
worked the 1968 Democratic National Convention has sparked anger among
demonstrators who made the convention infamous.
The "Chicago Riot Cops Reunion" on June 26 will mark what until
now hasn't been considered a proud moment in Chicago Police Department history.
In an e-mail, the organizer of the reunion told the Chicago Tribune he
planned the reunion for his 70-year-old father, adding opponents of the event
should protest gang violence, "not a bunch of elderly men."
But Marilyn Katz, a protester at the 1968 convention and now president of a
A federal commission determined demonstrators provoked police, adding the officers reacted with violence that amounted to a "police riot."
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