Feb. 19, 1968: 56 years ago, Feb 18 1968, San Francisco police attacked an impromptu [...]
56 years ago, Feb 18 1968, San Francisco police attacked an impromptu street festival in the Haight-Ashbury for “impeding traffic,” bearing down on the crowd with batons and teargas. The crowd, 146 of whom were arrested, responded with bottles, eggs, and two molotov cocktails
The Peace and Freedom Party held a community meeting at the Straight Theater the next day, at which Digger leader Emmett Grogan proclaimed: “San Francisco is a free city, and no matter what the police do… we will defend the free city with our lives and with our deaths.”
