But even ignoring the above video – which I can now only assume makes you proud of CPD – the photo gallery you yourself linked to shows a disturbing amount of blood.  Especially bloody head wounds.

But none of them were on cops.  There were no bloodied cops, no potentially life-threatening head trauma inflicted on the boys in blue.  There was one flimsy stick which apparently broke over a cop’s head (if we’re to believe the caption).

Considering how much injury the protesters endured, and how little they injured the cops, I would say that the protesters are the ones who showed remarkable restraint.

Why do you suppose your “alternative outlets” are any less biased than the mainstream media? In any gathering of this size, there’s going to be a few idiots taking things too far on both sides of the line, and the Occupy folks will get more people on their side if everyone thinks the police are being over-bearing.

Here’s a photo capturing one of the protestors hitting an un-helmeted cop on the head with a stick right before the fracas at Cermak and Michigan aves:

http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-120520-nato-summit-protests-sunday-pictures/#10

Why would a peaceful protestor do that, exactly?

Or have you just been watching the coverage of the protests by the Chicago mainstream media?  The media that celebrates everything the cops do, and paints over any police aggression as “provoked”?

I’m not even in Chicago, nor did I attend the protests.  But simply by checking some alternative media outlets, I have much more perspective about what actually happened.  And it doesn’t make me proud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAnHwzI7DZQ

Looks like there’s some trouble up on Milwaukee Ave as well:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/natosummit/chinews-nato-march-protesters-openin-20120520,0,7328400.htmlstory

The Chicago PD has been super restrained. They haven’t used pepper spray, tear gas or excessive violence against a very small group of 100 people or so who have been trying to provoke them for 3 days straight.

The CPD has treated the protesters with the respect and civility they deserve. I am proud of what they’ve done and proud to live here.