Four People Arrested Outside Democratic Convention Amid Gaza Protests: ‘All the Top Democrats Are Complicit’ With ‘Genocide’

At least four people were arrested outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on Monday after a security fence was breached during a pro-Palestinian protest.

According to ABC 7 Chicago , police made the arrests after a fence along the north side of the convention center was breached. Police reportedly formed a barricade to stop protesters from gaining access to the convention center.

“The National Special Security Event plan employs a multi-layered approach,” explained the DNC Public Safety Joint Information Center in a statement. “Each NSSE plan is unique and includes multiple layers. One of these redundancies include the outer perimeter fence, which was erected to prevent entry into the inner perimeter.”

More than 200 organizations , including Black Lives Matter Chicago, the Arab American Action Network, and the Democratic Socialists of America, took part in the protests at the DNC on Monday, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to US military aid for Israel.

“Make no mistake, Joe Biden can turn off that tap of funding immediately,” said Coalition to March on the DNC spokesperson Hatem Abudayyeh . “He could’ve done back in October. The fact that he did it means he supports this genocide, that he has the blood of 40,000 Palestinians on his hands and that he and Kamala Harris and Antony Blinken, and Jeffries, and Schumer, and Pelosi, and Schakowsky, and Durbin and all the top Democrats are complicit.”

Stores and restaurants in Chicago were boarded up late last week in preparation for protests against the DNC, while House Democrats were urged not to book hotel rooms under their own names after suspicious calls were made to hotels in the city.

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