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

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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