Security remains a top priority at the Democratic National Convention after a fence outside the United Center was breached Monday.
Chicago police are assessing DNC security after a fence at the United Center was breached during a protest Monday.some protesters breached the outer security fence.Tuesday morning, crews appeared to be adding additional fencing where the area was breached, with a second line of fencing behind the original barriers.
Thousands had marched from Union Park to demand action on a number of issues, including the Israel-Hamas War, poverty and reproductive rights in what was a mostly peaceful protest.Within minutes of some protesters breaching the fencing along Washington Boulevard, Chicago police broke out the riot gear and swarmed the frenzied scene.
"What I don't want to do is associate everything that happened the fencing was breached with the entirety of that march because there were people who exercised their First Amendment rights, did not commit any crimes and they marched away from here," Superintendent Snelling said.After the fence was patched up, even more police riot teams cleared the adjacent Park 578 of protesters.
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