Protests over Israel-Gaza war expected as party nominates President Joe Biden.
04/15/2024 05:00 AM EDTDemocrats from across the country are converging in Chicago this week to lay the groundwork for their upcoming convention, where they will nominate President Joe Biden and hope to avoid the kind of unrest that made this city notorious in the annals of political history.
Members of the Association of State Democratic Committees will get updates on convention planning, tour venues, including the United Center and McCormick Place, where daytime meetings will be held, andParty Chair Jaime Harrison andwill be on hand to give details on logistics for the convention, which is just four months away.
Law enforcement officials are working to come up with parameters for where protesters can demonstrate and how to handle activists who break rules includingThe plans are being made without input from the protesters themselves.to march from the city’s West Side to the United Center but has been rejected every time, prompting the group to file a lawsuit claiming their First Amendment rights are being violated.
It didn’t work. Protests occurred anyway and became violent when police used nightsticks on the crowd.
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