Re: We'll silence them one way or another

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From: Rafael Block
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:22

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Charles Packer wrote:
> "Robert McClelland" <robert.mcclelland@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<bVlka.3634$N94.299783@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> 
>>OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Oakland police fired rubber bullets to
>>disperse about 750 anti-war demonstrators on Monday in what was
>>believed to be the first use of the projectiles against U.S.
>>protesters since the American-led war on Iraq began.
> 
> 
> 
> Historical question: Have U.S. police _ever_ used projectiles against
> protest demonstrators before? The most likely recent instance would
> have been in Seattle against the anti-globalist demonstrators in 1999.
> Does anybody recall? What about Chicago, 1968?

No rubber bullets to my recollection, but they did use [Geneva 
convention banned] tear gas.

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