Deputy St. Paul Police chief: Protesters at RNC will not be caged

[MnFats]

Source: WCCO tv, mpls.st.paul

Assistant St. Paul Police Chief Matt Bostrom on Monday assured state lawmakers that demonstrators outside the Republican National Convention won't be confined to fenced-in areas.

Bostrom said the city might erect barricades but he doesn't envision enclosures where protesters would be relegated. He told a legislative panel that demonstrators will be granted "sight and sound" access to the Xcel Energy Center, where the main convention business will be conducted next September.

At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, that city set up a "free-speech zone" outside the FleetCenter surrounded by fences, barricades and razor wire. Protesters complained that the controlled area was too restrictive.

Applications for convention protest permits will be accepted beginning in March.


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