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This Day in Rock History – August 21st

1972: Jefferson Airplane gets into a fight with police at an Airplane concert in Akron, Ohio. The police are responding to a bomb threat. Paul Katner calls the police “pigs” and the fight is on.

Katner is injured in the melee and Grace Slick is temporarily blinded by mace.

The audience starts to pelt the police with rocks and a full-scale riot ensues.

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