Police are paranoid of the public and looking for excuses.

By Rosemary Sobol, David Heinzmann and Jeremy GornerTribune reporters

10:48 a.m. CDT, May 18, 2012

The National Lawyers Guild (click here) says Chicago police wrongly arrested a group of NATO protesters inBridgeport this week, alleging they were making Molotov cocktails, but the lawyers say the protesters only had beer brewing equipment.

Police have so far declined to discuss or even acknowledge the arrests, and the details of the alleged raid are murky.

Police reports obtained by the Tribune show that nine people were arrested Wednesday in the 1000 block of West 32nd Street for allegedly making or possessing Molotov cocktails....