The dynamic division between beefy, militarized, baton-wielding police and mostly young, camera phone- wielding, sleeveless protestors holds.
This is one video among no doubt thousands of others taken on that historic day. Which ones shall become iconic? Which to burn in memory? Which will drive us onward?
How many views that we remember, and cherish, will be peaceful, how many not? How to decide what to remember? How to be grateful for all that is, all of it, including the thunderstorms that blessed Bloomington, four hours south of Chicago, a few hours later, too?
A few hundred protestors removing the batons from the police and pummeling them back would be appropriate for a free people.
And you think the violence would stop there? Gandhi: eye for an eye makes the whole world blind . . .