Police terrorize protesters ahead of #NATO summit

[Gina]

Rahm is a conservative? That's the first time I ever heard that, anywhere.

[TooManyChiefs]

Rahm is a conservative? That's the first time I ever heard that, anywhere.

Streets and San Workers: Wages cut from $33 to $20 / hour
Teachers Union: Multiple concessions, including longer schoolday
[x] Finally using infrastructure banks to keep the CTA alive
[x] Arresting all Occupy protestors on sight after Grant Park curfew back in October, before it could get out of control

Right there, 4 things that count for being quite a conservative in a city like Chicago.

[noonwitch]

Streets and San Workers: Wages cut from $33 to $20 / hour
Teachers Union: Multiple concessions, including longer schoolday
[x] Finally using infrastructure banks to keep the CTA alive
[x] Arresting all Occupy protestors on sight after Grant Park curfew back in October, before it could get out of control

Right there, 4 things that count for being quite a conservative in a city like Chicago.

Dave Bing took similar measures in Detroit. He's a democrat. It's what mayors of big cities are having to do to make ends meet.


Cheer up-at least Chicago still has cops to deal with protestors and criminals. In Detroit, the precincts close at 4:30 and only the downtown headquarters/911 are open.

[DumbAss Tanker]

What the police busted them for using to make the Molotov Cocktails were this.



The protesters are claiming it was for home brewing.

That particular stuff does appear to be for home brewing, and you'd have to distill any alcohol it produced to get it to a concentration that'd burn. Which isn't to say that pic is all the evidence against them, either, or that they can't be both radical nutters and home brewers.