Chicago, 2012. Four days of protests during the NATO summit ended in 100+ arrests, dozens of injuries, several broken cameras, a raid on an apartment complex, tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money spent on security and surveillance, several lawsuits.

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Chicago, 2011. More than 2,000 people march through the Loop and try to encamp in Grant Park as part of occupy Chicago. 175 arrests.

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Chicago, 2003. Thousands and thousands shut down DLSD to protest the Iraq war. Nearly 900 people were mass arrested, including random bystanders. I was in a kettle for an hour or two but managed to get out safely. Dozens of my friends didn't. Several were injured.

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Chicago, 2002. I was in my early 20s for this one. Not much happened (1 arrest IIRC), but the City deployed like 1000 riot cops. They lined the streets of the march route with buses intended for mass arrests.

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Literally anytime young Americans have been in the streets over political issues since *I* was young (decades ago), they've been told they're "protesting wrong," "immature," and attacked/arrested by riot police.

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