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This happened before that:
I attended one march, got first hand reports from others and monitored the media as well as twitter feeds closely. The overwhelming majority of NATO protesters did not run into police violence. In most cases the police escorted the protesters, closed of streets and negotiated with the protesters when things did not work well. In some cases they even gave the protesters water.
It was a very small number of protesters who even engaged the police, yet many folks, especially from out of town, are acting like it was a police state. Police states don't escort protesters, give them water and negotiate with them.
I am proud of the Chicago Police Department and how they conducted themselves this weekend. I was more bothered by some of the heavy handed legal maneuvers made by Rahm's administration in advance of the NATO Summit than I was with the way the CPD conducted itself.