This is the first photo in a series of three related photos. The three are attached together with masking tape. This photo shows five or six people, mostly demonstrators(?), crossing Geary Street. Three San Francisco police officers equipped with riot gear are also in the street, and one male demonstrator is engaged in an altercation with these three. One police officer is holding up his billy club. The demonstrator is blocking the club with one hand while hopping sideways away from the officers. A Channel 7 news cameraman, who is filming the incident, is partially visible on the left-hand side of the photo. In the background are Geary Street businesses, including Lefty O'Doul's. Parked cars line the street. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalk. A note written in black pen on the back of the photograph reads,"He refused to move fast enough & got beaten". On May 12, an anti-war demonstration protesting President Richard Nixon's Vietnam war policies (specifically Nixon's recently announced strategy to mine North Vietnamese harbors) was held in front of the St. Francis Hotel. Both California Govenor Ronald Reagan and New York Govenor Nelson Rockefeller were staying at the hotel during an official "kick-off" for Nixon's re-election campaign. Three thousand plus demonstrators attended the noontime rally, which turned violent when a police motorcycle was set afire. There were sixty arrests and numerous injuries.