Forty Years Ago Today

Hizzoner, The Late Mayor Richard J. Daley, made headlines when he told reporters how he instructed his Top Cop to deal with the post-MLK-assassination rioting in the city of Chicago.

"I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting."

He later claimed that the 'shoot to kill' line was a fabrication.