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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Protesters and Police Clash Outside the Chicago DNC

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A confrontation at the Israeli consulate leads to arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators Tuesday night, a day after thousands of protesters filled the city's Union Park. Collin Levy and Barton Swaim, who were there, describe what they saw and heard. Plus, Barack and Michelle Obama take the DNC stage to endorse Kamala Harris and urge the country to reject Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

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Protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago clash with police outside the Israeli consulate.

0:31.0

Let's talk to two reporters who were on the ground.

0:33.0

Meantime, on the stage inside the United Center, the party delegates here from

0:37.4

former President Barack Obama, who goes after Donald Trump as an annoying neighbor

0:42.4

with a leaf blower outside America's

0:44.9

window. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined

0:49.5

today by my colleagues on the editorial page Colin Levy and Martin Swain. The phrase on the

0:55.9

home page of the Chicago Sun Times newspaper right now as we're taping this

1:00.6

this morning is mass arrests. It says there was a pro-Palestinian

1:05.1

demonstration outside the Israeli consulate in downtown Chicago with a

1:10.1

violent scrum leading to dozens of arrests, differing reports on the exact number, perhaps as many

1:17.4

as 72, according to this new story. But all but unnoticed at the United Center where another round of Democratic dignitaries

1:25.2

take the stage in the lead up to Kamil Harris on Thursday.

1:30.4

Let's start with a couple of reporters who were on the ground at that consulate protest.

1:34.4

Colin, can you give us a sense of where you were and what you saw unfold?

1:39.3

Sure, Barton and I were right outside where the Israeli consulate is at 500 Madison, so we were definitely right in the midst of what was going on there.

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