For those imagining/fearing Chicago convention riots a la 1968...

[brooklynite]

...the Chicago PD is now 50% non-White (25% Hispanic, 21% African American, 3% AAPI) and Mayor Daley is no longer in charge.

[Elessar Zappa]

1. That doesn't guarantee there won't be problems.

Not saying there will be but there’s a possibility of trouble.

[former9thward]

2. No, Mayor Johnson is in charge and he is denying permits just like Mayor Daley I did in '68.

The Coalition to March on the DNC has tried three times to secure a permit 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.

Bill Ayers, the former anti-war activist who was arrested during the convention that year, says the stalling by city officials echoes the infamous 1968 convention when then Mayor Richard J. Daley's "strategy was to keep the protest groups talking and negotiating, and then to deny, deny, deny. It was rope-a-dope plus delay, then deny.” The goal was to divert attention and energy from planning a protest, Ayers, who lives in Chicago, recalled.

It didn’t work. Protests occurred anyway and became violent when police used nightsticks on the crowd.

Kobi Guillory, a spokesperson for the Coalition to March on the DNC, says protests will happen in August whether or not organizers are able to secure permits.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/democrats-descend-on-chicago-as-specter-of-68-convention-looms/ar-BB1lEnC0

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. racial makeup and leadership weren't the issue

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. I'm not worried, in fact, I'm kind of intrigued

I could see AOC and other members of the Squad speaking to the protestors, and saying something like this:

Link to tweet

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[LeftInTX]

6. There are going to be all sorts of disrupters. It's not gonna be a controlled situation like Columbia.

There will be RW agitators etc.

[emulatorloo]

7. It will be a controlled situation, as the disruptors will be in the "Free Speech Zones" away from the convention.

There were no “Free Speech Zones” in ‘68. Brooklynite is also correct about the police and Mayor Dailey, they completely overreacted.

[LeftInTX]

8. I hope. I'm seeing the protests in NYC. Cops are pretty good most of the time. Sometimes they lose it.

The DPS Riot Squad at UT were basically police brutality.

It could go either way.....

[emulatorloo]

10. OTOH Illinois isn't Texas and Gov J. B. Pritzker (D) isn't Gov Abbott (MAGA)

[LeftInTX]

11. I know

For this reason, I'm glad the Dems didn't select Houston for their convention.

[emulatorloo]

15. +1!

[Rebl2]

13. My thought

to RW agitators and who knows who else.

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. I'm still not worried

As the song says, Que sera, sera.

Milwaukee will have protestors too.

[BootinUp]

5. Still months away. nt

[emulatorloo]

9. You are correct. But it wouldn't be DU without dooming.

[LuvLoogie]

12. All those young kids are gonna want to be at the beaches

The Chicago lakefront will call. Mayor Johnson should set up free shuttles from the United Center to the museum campus, Buckingham fountain and North Avenue Beach