January 17, 1912: 112 years ago, January 17 1912, police violently disrupted a street [...]

112 years ago, January 17 1912, police violently disrupted a street meeting by the Industrial Workers of the World (part of the IWW’s “free speech fights”) in San Francisco, leaving one speaker hospitalized. Police only made three arrests before being driven off by the crowd IWW member Herbert Wright had …