{"id":31222,"date":"2024-08-21T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31222"},"modified":"2024-08-21T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T01:55:59","slug":"over-70-arrested-in-chicago-after-pro-palestinian-protesters-clash-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31222","title":{"rendered":"Over 70 arrested in Chicago after pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The confrontations with officers began minutes into the demonstration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago were arrested Tuesday after clashing with police during a protest that began outside the nearby Israeli consulate and spilled out onto the surrounding streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The confrontations with officers began minutes into the demonstration,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/democratic-convention-chicago-protests-war-gaza-f064683535bbbe93231d31ecc2dbafc7\"><u>according to the Associated Press<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some protesters \u2013 including many dressed in black and their faces covered \u2013 reportedly charged at a line of police that had blocked the group from marching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At least 72 people were arrested, according to the&nbsp;Chicago chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, which provided legal observers for Tuesday\u2019s protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Most of the arrests reportedly occurred&nbsp;at the end of the night, as police pinned the remaining demonstrators \u2013 some of whom said they were trying to get home \u2013 in a plaza and blocked them from leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling denied that police had \u201ckettled\u201d protesters, a tactic that involves corralling demonstrators in a confined area, which is banned under a federal consent decree, the wire service also reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/crime\/over-70-arrested-chicago-after-pro-palestinian-protesters-clash-police\">justthenews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The confrontations with officers began minutes into the demonstration Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago were arrested Tuesday after clashing with police during a protest that began outside the nearby Israeli consulate and spilled out onto the surrounding streets. The confrontations with officers began minutes into the demonstration,&nbsp;according to the Associated Press. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[2411,1555,1237,24165,1521],"class_list":["post-31222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-arrested","tag-chicago","tag-police","tag-pro-palestinian","tag-protesters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31224,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31222\/revisions\/31224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}