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RandySF

(60,157 posts) Sat Apr 27, 2024, 02:33 PM Apr 27

G.O.P. Asks Secret Service to Move Protesters Away From Convention Venue

The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July.

The three-page letter, signed by Todd R. Steggerda, counsel to the Republican National Committee, objected to the placement of an area where protesters would be allowed to demonstrate. Mr. Steggerda argued that convention attendees would be forced to pass by the protesters on their way into the venue, raising the potential for confrontations.

“As recent college and university campus clashes make plain,” Mr. Steggerda wrote in the letter obtained by The New York Times, “forced proximity heightens tensions among peaceful attendees and demonstrators of differing ideologies and increases the risk of escalation to verbal, or even physical, clashes.”

Hundreds of people have been arrested in a recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, but there have been no reports of significant violence by those demonstrators.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/republican-convention-protest-milwaukee.html

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G.O.P. Asks Secret Service to Move Protesters Away From Convention Venue (Original Post) RandySF Apr 27 OP

Is the RNC going to pay for this? Retrograde Apr 27 #1

A big fat NO............................ Lovie777 Apr 27 #2

Retrograde

(10,203 posts)

1. Is the RNC going to pay for this?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 03:01 PM

Apr 27

If not, they can shut up and live with the current (IMHO) exceedingly generous measures the city is already taking.

And who picked Milwaukee in the first place? It's a nice enough city, but it did vote overwhelmingly for Biden in 2020, so maybe the GOP Brain Trust should have had an inkling that they might not be as welcome there as in, say, Mar a Lago. Or are they afraid that the delegates who are coming to anoint Donnie god-emperor might catch a glimpse of "those people" is they get too far from the center of their bubble? ("Those people" includes but is not limited to immigrants, people of non-European ancestry, students, workers, uppity women, and anyone else whose existence offends Donnie)

Lovie777

(12,475 posts)

2. A big fat NO............................

Reply to Retrograde (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 03:22 PM

Apr 27

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