Friday, July 15, 2011

NATO Summit: Chicago Trains 13,000 Police For Mass Arrests

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25646

Joe Iosbaker, spokesman for the United National Antiwar Committee, said Thursday that he was scouting marching routes to McCormick Place, where he said the city might host the summits...“People are saying this will be larger than our RNC protest, which drew 30,000 people,” Iosbaker said, referring to the 2008 Republican National Convention held in St. Paul, Minn...About 50 groups have pledged their support for the demonstrations against NATO and will hold a planning meeting in Chicago on Aug. 28, Iosbaker said.


Battle lines between protesters and the police are already being drawn for the NATO and G-8 summits that Chicago will host next spring.


On Thursday, an anti-war organizer said he was scouting potential staging areas for crowds of protesters expected outside the summits in May.


Meanwhile, police Supt. Garry McCarthy said he’s been planning for three weeks. And he put a deputy superintendent, Debra Kirby, in charge of preparing the Chicago Police Department’s response.

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