From: Montyneill-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:20:10 EST
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Shared Lessons of Revolt (Chi)



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Since Nate's post was really about Chicago not SF, I changed the subject 
line.

I was on phone with a friend from Chicago this morning, who was not arrested 
but spent a lot of time over the weekend getting a friend out of jail. He 
said cops can hold for 72 hours also, not the 24. He also thinks (and he's 
greying like me, was around for Nam, in Chicago) the mass detentions, moving 
folks around, taking many of those detained way out to the edge of the city, 
not letting callers know if someone was in the station/jail, etc. were all 
calculated to intimidate and also to keep lots of folks away from 
demonstrating the rest of the weekend at least. I assume the big 'they' are 
concerned about demonstrators and want to control people - if ANSWER etc can 
do it fine, if not, then the cops will. 

My recollection is Chicago is well known for beating lots of people up, and 
seems this was not as prevalent as in the past from what I am hearing. 

Monty
 

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