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Posted on 08/17/2024 3:28:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 20,000 protesters are expected to cram into a 1.4 mile-long court-approved protest route near Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week, creating a potential standoff between demonstrators and a police department with a history of excessive force.
The 264 protest groups that have said will participate are primarily focused on Palestinian rights, ending the war in Gaza and reducing U.S. aid to Israel. Others represent a patchwork of left-leaning causes: climate activists, socialists, anti-racist organizations, queer and trans rights groups.
Arab American groups in the Chicago area, home to the country’s largest Palestinian American community, said local police and federal agents have targeted their community for years — racially profiling residents, raiding homes and surveilling them. The tactics have resulted in few convictions.
The Chicago Police Department, which famously clashed with protesters during the 1968 Democratic Convention in the city, has been under a consent decree since 2019. The agency has long struggled with racial bias complaints, excessive use of force cases and a spate of high-profile fatal shootings.
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1968 with everbody now having a handheld camera. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s a legit question.
Water cannons. I really like water cannons.
I just hope injuries are few.
Why is this an either/or proposition?
Both/and.
No it isn’t. False dilemma. A common logical fallacy.
The DNC controls these groups today.
They will protest peacefully and not make a scene.
When the freaks protest themselves, you know its a set-up.
Get ready for riot season.
Protesters will be identified as MAGA types and the unruly Amish.
Shouldn’t they be given “room to destroy”? Wasn’t that the approach that was taken in Baltimore several years ago?
TBH I’m surprised the DNC is even having a convention given the manufacturing of the last candidate and the continued practice with the present candidate, I would have thought a convention would have been virtual.
The optics might prove to be interesting.
I doubt the Chicago Police will be able or willing to keep the protesors/rioters in a designated area away from the convention venue. Somebody is going to do something really violent and 20K rioters are going to go crazy. It’s going to make the DNC into the DMZ. Not my wish, but too likely to ignore. It would take the National Guard to stop 20K fanatics and that won’t happen.
I doubt the Chicago Police will be able or willing to keep the protesors/rioters in a designated area away from the convention venue. Somebody is going to do something really violent and 20K rioters are going to go crazy. It’s going to make the DNC into the DMZ. Not my wish, but too likely to ignore. It would take the National Guard to stop 20K fanatics and that won’t happen.
I am so looking forward to the chaos. Will I be dissappointed?
Kamala/Walz is the problem
Where was our court approved protest route on the 6th in deeceee?????
Must be a democrat thing.
Chicago Police have my permission to apply as much “excessive force” on these “protesters” as necessary to get the job done.
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