The Haymarket event, when a bomb was thrown in Chicago in May 1886, and its aftermath, the trial and execution of anarchists, is sometimes described as "the Haymarket riot". This is a gross error, and even a lie, because there was no riot, the crowd was peacefully listening to an orator when the police erupted, infringing on the people’s right to freely assemble. A bomb was thrown from an unknown source - no reconstitution of the event was ever attempted - and in the panic the police shot into the crowd and at one another. Activists were accused, condemned and hung, while it was clear to everyone that some were not even in Haymarket at the time of the event.
Unfortunately, the Chicago “Historical” Society, which owns a large number of documents related to the story, introduces the event in a biased way, by presenting a newspaper picture which represents the event as a “riot”.
This history is clearly a crime perpetrated by the state: if later on governor Altgeld pardoned the victims, this never resuscitated the dead. And it cost him his career. States never recognize their own crimes. If you believe the opposite is true, present us with some evidence and we will publish it.
The same would happen again in 1927, when two other anarchists, Sacco and Vanzetti, were executed, and fifty years later the state recognized that the trial was a mockery.