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Chicago riots

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Chicago riots
“police riot” arguably cost Democrats election (1968). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 625]
See : Riot


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The crowd in Grant Park — scene of one of the most bruising chapters in recent US political history, the Chicago riots of 1968 — stood rapt.
Exploiting the Chicago riots and the string of similar rampages across the country in the preceding months, the media and political elites pushed through legislation that transferred vast new police powers to the federal government.
Using documentary footage from the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, Marshall explicitly pays tribute to Haskell Wexler's 1968 classic Medium Cool, which documented the Chicago riots of that year.
 
 
 
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