This Day in History

[DanaC]

Weren't the cops responding in kind? You laughed a joked, they laughed and joked. You were yelling and cursing them(who didn't create the tax), and they being greatly outnumbered by anarchists, commies, and maybe even Irish, responded with force out of fear.

Ha!

There was a massive tonal shift as the march progressed. The police along the first part of the route were just ordinary local police - in ordinary police uniforms. I think they maybe had protective vests, but that was about it. The police at the more sensitive areas of the route weren't smiling, were geared up and had no visible identity numbers. They were more like soldiers (I don't mean actual soldiers, I'm not sure I buy that they were anything but police - but they were not the bobby on the beat police they were met officers and other high end police drafted in from other cities - the police equivalent of special forces)