As good as the cops are--I assume they perfected the technique during the NATO protests four years ago--they did make one big tactical mistake tonight, or maybe not.  The demonstrators were funneled south on Wabash.  That makes sense when the demonstration is crossing Chicago Avenue, but about six or seven blocks south sits what has become a politically charged Chicago landmark:  Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago.  About three blocks before arriving, the protesters realized where they were headed.  At about the same time, the police realized the potential problem they had created.  That wasn't a hard realization to come by: People had begun chanting "Fuck Trump."  The bicycle cops responded, racing down the far sidewalk in an effort to reach the Trump International Hotel before the demonstrators got there.    Trump had to put his name on the building in two-story letters.

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