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Armageddon at the Emerald City
Davis, Mike | July 11, 1994 issue

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The eighty-eight-foot lion that guards the entrance to MGM's Emerald City looked unusually glum on the eve of the Memorial Day holiday. As dust devils chased early evening commuters down Tropicana Boulevard, Las Vegas police strapped tear-gas masks to their gun belts. Sullen resort security men in blue blazers stood sentry behind hastily improvised little signs declaring the adjacent sidewalk, probably the busiest section of the casino strip, private property. The police seriously underestimated both the scale and militancy of the demonstration. After the first 500 busts, police commanders threw in the towel. Hundreds of unionists, having waited hours to be arrested, demanded their place on the police bus.

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CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; DEMONSTRATIONS; HOLIDAYS; POLICE; LABOR unions; LAS Vegas (Nev.); NEVADA; UNITED States
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