By GREG BISHOP | THE CENTER SQUARE
Protesters clashed with police on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention Monday with more demonstrations expected.
During a security briefing as the day’s activities were getting underway, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Chicago is ready.
“The city of Chicago is really good at things like this,” Johnson said. “It’s the reason why we’ve hosted more national and political conventions than anywhere else in America.”
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling was asked about the potential that protest groups would get inside the perimeter.
“No one will be allowed within the secure perimeter of the DNC,” Snelling told reporters. “This is a matter of national security.”
Later in the day, demonstrators, some wearing masks and holding an array of signs, butted up against security barricades. Among the thousands of demonstrators marching toward the United Center as official events were getting underway Monday night were those looking for more LGBTQ equality, abortion rights and an end to Israel’s war in Gaza with chants of “free, free, free, free Palestine.”
Protester Frank Chapman, of the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, said all U.S. aid to Israel must end.
“We want Palestine to win,” he told the cheering crowd.
That issue got the attention of Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Schaumburg.
“We do need to continue to support our ally Israel,” Duckworth said. “At the same time, we need to remember the hostages need to come home. Many of them have died in captivity. But, we also have to work at getting humanitarian aid into Gaza.”
Protests are expected to continue through the rest of the DNC, which runs through Thursday.
Jim Talamonti contributed to this story.
Those are not Americans in that photo, deport them all.
Now the left wants walls. To protect them from their own storm troopers.
Watching Joe Biden address the DNC right now. Never gave I seen such an angry old man trying to hypnotize his audience. Ain’t happening. Rather, everyone waiting for him to get off the stage.
He’s just horrible. Even Harris is rolling her eyes.
The religion of the malcontents
Spot on Generokee!
And no one will be charged with criminal trespass…
These Palestinian supporters need to go on a year-long vacation in Palestine.
They created a monster. Now it has turned on them and they can’t control it. Such is the karma of the left.
Pretty ironic that the DNC is demanding picture ID to enter their fenced in crummy convention, yet deem those measures as inhumane at the southern border!
Police Super Larry Snelling had some real words of wisdom saying no one will be allowed to breach the secure perimeter of the DNC. It’s a matter of national security. Why can’t we treat our borders this way? I didn’t think Liberal Democrats liked walls?
FOX was disappointed that 10,000 marchers were really 1,000 and there was no riot
Looks like walls are ok when the Dems need them but not when their country’s citizens need them.
Do you readers see the hypocrisy of the Dems yet? Are you awake yet?
Useful idiots, all of them. I will bet none of them have ever read past headlines in a social media post.
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As soon as the leftists get their way, these morons will be the first into the gulags.
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