Hayden dismisses the question, saying it's what he just got asked. I'm a supporter of the vice president,'' Hayden says of Gore. This isn't anything like a basketball game. Brown's a veteran of the post-Lakers championship riots, in which police cars and stores were destroyed by celebrating fans. These people haven't won anything, so I don't anticipate it being anything but a peaceful time.
Some people sing along.
There are a few hundred people, at best. Fifty percent of the people are too disgusted to vote. As the Democratic National Convention kicks off, with much anticipation about speeches to be delivered by Hill and Bill, there is tumult outside the Independent Media Center. An activist from Santa Cruz, at the convention as an alternate media volunteer, is taken prisoner, held by police without charges, for three hours, while her 1976 VW van is made the object in an alleged bomb scare. Meanwhile, side streets bordering Patriotic Hall are blocked off with yellow crime scene tape.