Lots of police meant a safe GOP convention
posted at 7:21 pm on July 22, 2016 by John Sexton
The GOP convention may have been a bit of a trainwreck on the inside but things were a lot calmer than predicted outside the convention thanks to a large police presence.
Recall that in the weeks and months leading up to the convention there were protesters, many of them associated with Black Lives Matter, interrupting Trump events and getting manhandled or even punched by Trump supporters. There were raucous protests outside Trump rallies that often seemed on the edge of spinning out of control.
The GOP convention could have become a pitched street battle between protesters and convention-goers but it didn’t turn out that way. From the AP:
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/07/22/lots-of-police-meant-little-drama-outside-the-gop-convention/