Officials announced in Friday that two smaller parks — including one further away from the site — will be the designated protest zones during the event.
Fiserv Forum, home of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, will be the site for July's Republican National Convention. Protesters headed to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July will not be allowed to use a large park near the convention venue that had been eyed for demonstrations. Officials in charge of the convention’s security announced Friday that two smaller parks — including one further away from the site — will be the designated protest zones during the event.
The authorities said that the protest zones would be located at two sites on opposite ends of the convention’s outer security perimeter, an area where vehicles must be screened but that generally remains accessible to the public. The ACLU of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit against the city of Milwaukee earlier this month over demonstrators being denied an area within “sight and sound” of the convention area. Although parties attempted to mediate, ACLU of Wisconsin staff attorney Tim Muth said in a statement on Friday that “the divide was too great to bridge” and they’re proceeding with their case.
In his statement on Friday, Muth called the security perimeter’s expansion “an impermissible concession to the Republican National Committee, which did not want to see or hear demonstrators near its convention.”
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