The San Francisco Experience

January, 1980

The San Francisco ExperienceThe Broken Glass on the steps of City Hall was two inches deep. Four lines of police--men, actually, dressed in heavy shirts; some wearing bulletproof vests; carrying three-foot batons across their chests, theif faces hidden behind visors of plastic--stood in the glass, ducking bottles, cans, rocks and pieces of cement garbage bins that had been torn apart by the crowd. A hysterical policeman shouted, "Did you see them throw every fucking thing at us and us under...