Klan Rally Sparks Violent Protest

Anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstrators clashed with police and pelted white-hooded klansmen with snowballs during a planned march by about 20 members of the hate group in Skokie, a Chicago suburb that is home to many Holocaust survivors. Police arrested about 10 anti-klan demonstrators, who witnesses said smashed the windows of at least three squad cars and fought with police. Witnesses said one squad car bolted when trapped by the crowd, causing demonstrators to scatter and then reassemble to rain kicks on the vehicle. Some of the anti-klan demonstrators, who numbered in the hundreds, pounced on a few young men declaring their support for the hate group--one wearing a T-shirt with the word “Jews” and a slash through it.