Two weeks later, cops flexed their muscles at City Center Plaza. Those with press passes were systematically manhandled. They were seen by most cops as the root of the problem. The press, Quinn Tamm of the International Association of Chiefs of Police wrote in the June Police Chief magazine, “overpublic[ized] militants, assiduously stoking the fires of unrest.” Mayor Daley agreed. He didn’t anticipate any trouble convention week—“unless certain commentators and columnists cause trouble.”
