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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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cops are good guys. Mayor Daley's a good guy, yea, how
come their eight cops put up to balance us eight in Chicago -
they put up eight cops - that's why I wear the shirt. That's
why I wear it in Chicago. See, we're in empathy with those
working men on the force. They're being put up as scapegoats.
We offered them ovr legal aid. People saw that coming in;
the whole world was watching in Chicago. They saw it on
air, it was coming over the boob tube. Smash amash smash.
Beatin' up the kids. We don't believe it. It's not true.
And they're right, where they live, it's not true. Cop's
a guy that comes by to help them with a flat tire, you
know? Guy come by, Officer, will you keep an eye on the
house? We're going to Miami Beach, and we'll be away for
a while and there's alot of violence in the streets. Will
you keep an eye on our house? Oh yes. Thanks,, Officer.
And they see him on FBI, Mod Squad, and aji1 the other shows.
They're good guys. Well, they ain't good guys where I
live. [In my block there're twenty cops that patrol it.
And you're a suspicious looking character, which is like
most of us, suspicious lookin', they grab you and throw
you up against the building and they search ya and they
find some flowers in your pocket, you could do one to five
years. You ain't got an ID you get thrown in jail. Thrown
in jail for not having an ID? It's ridiculous. They blow
the whistle, half the hippies turn to cops. It's a
different world; it's a long way from here. I know it's
flat up here, but you got a long way to go to see what's
goin’ on in the lower east side. War goin' on down there.
“Four days last summer, gunshots, fighting,
Blacks and Puerto Ricans and hippies, fightin’ the T.P.F.
cause we wanna live in a society that has human values, not
property. We had a party like four montbs before we wen. to
Chicago in Grand Centra] Station. I mean, like, eight thousand
kids came. Midnight, to celebrate spring. We had balloons
and singing and smokin' dope, buggin' and kissin’. I don't know
if you've been in Grand Central Station. Huge, huge, lobby
there, totally filled with people, an absolutely beautiful
sight. Some kids climb up on the information counter in the
middle and took the hands off the clock. Two hundred pigs
came in a flying wedge. They learned that in Notre Dame, whan.
One hundred fifty in the hogpital. I got knocked unconscious.
Busted ankle. Friend of mine, Ron Shay, came to my aid,
gee, gonna help out? Hcked up, threw hin through a
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