Regarding the siege of People’s Park, see here. The police state, under the blessing of then‐governor Ronald Reagan, censored their badges, injured over a dozen hundred civilians, blinded one person, killed one student… basically nothing that couldn’t happen today. Here are some photographs.
Regarding the siege of Tompkins Square Park, see here. (Notice how it had another siege a little over a century earlier…)
Regarding the siege of People’s Park, see here. The police state, under the blessing of then‐governor Ronald Reagan, censored their badges, injured over a dozen hundred civilians, blinded one person, killed one student… basically nothing that couldn’t happen today. Here are some photographs.
Regarding the siege of Tompkins Square Park, see here. (Notice how it had another siege a little over a century earlier…)
For more examples of wonderful policework, see the White Night riots of 1979.