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Cobo Hall Creep Scene
Police mass for attack on peaceful demonstrators / Photo: Ken Hamblin
“I really got this one guy who called me a fascist pig. I beat him to a pulp.”
— A Detroit Policeman (Detroit Scope Magazine, November 9, 1968)
The October 29 rally for George Wallace at Cobo Hall in downtown Detroit ended in what can only be called a full scale police riot. Events inside the Arena set the stage for what later occurred after the rally when 350 club-swinging Detroit pigs attacked a group of about 1,000 demonstrators who had assembled to express their opposition to Wallace’s candidacy.
Dec 11, 2019 Read the whole text...