photo credit: conservative treehouse
Note the barrier wall constructed around the stage
From the City of Brotherly
Love's CBS local media:
At least one
protester was captured on video lighting a flag on fire and waving it in
the air, while many others shoved the perimeter fence as police pushed
back. The seven
arrested were all taken to the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center and will
appear before a judge later Thursday. Philadelphia
Police Commissioner Richard Ross commented on the incident:
“They were
able to breach that fence. It’s kind of ridiculous in the sense that we were
standing right there waiting for them. They see us. So, it’s not like it’s a
surprise.”
Ross said,
“It’s not like they thought they could get anywhere.”
Ross also
spoke about the consequences saying, “They are now being charged with a federal
offense.”
There are
reports that one officer suffered minor injuries in the incident.
. . .
Earlier
Wednesday, ten people were arrested after staging a sit-in at the Comcast
Building in Center City.
The
demonstrators chained themselves to a rolling gate for nearly an hour before
being removed by police just before 1 p.m. The demonstrators
were cited for obstruction and released.
Police say
they issued 69 citations since the start of the DNC on Monday.
It may get even more chaotic this
evening with Hillary’s acceptance speech.
As for The Sleaze Factor: Some commenters on FB and elsewhere have been
waxing rhapsodic over President Bill Clinton’s keynote the other evening, you know, the one that "humanized" Hillary. In
addition to the harrowing account of Juanita Broadderick’s encounter with him (the
Breitbart story-- reviewing her testimony years ago to investigators for the
Senate Judiciary Committee -- was linked on Drudge all day yesterday), this image
is making the rounds:
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