2012年5月20日 星期日

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Clashes between police, protesters mar peaceful march
May 20th 2012, 21:41

The Lookout

By Dylan Stableford

Senior Media Reporter

By Dylan Stableford | The Lookout – 3 hrs ago

Several thousand demonstrators marched through downtown Chicago to protest the start of the two-day NATO summit as planned, streaming into Chicago's Grant park on Sunday afternoon.

And unlike Saturday--which featured "increasingly tense clashes" between police and protesters, resulting in 18 arrests--Sunday's march was mostly peaceful.

Mostly. But there were some isolated, violent clashes between police and protesters.

One, according to the Associated Press, began when "dozens of protesters in black clothing surged toward a much smaller group of police, throwing objects at them. The "badly outnumbered officers fought back with truncheons, and people on both sides threw punches. As police reinforcements moved in, the pack of violent protesters fled," the AP said.

Another occurred late Sunday afternoon, when protesters who had marched two-and-a-half miles from Grant Park to the NATO site pushed against a line of police officers in riot gear. A CNN video showed the officers beating several protesters with batons.

A protester is helped after sustaining an injury at a protest of the NATO summit in Chicago, May 20, 2012. (Nam …

There were at least two arrests on Sunday, according to police. Two men--24-year-old Sebastian Senakiewicz and 28-year-old Mark Neiweem--were taken into custody accused of planning to use Molotov cocktails during the summit, according to CNN. Their arrests came a day after three activists were accused of a plot to attack the Obama campaign's Chicago headquarters using the firebombs.

Senakiewicz was charged with falsely making a terrorist threat; Neiweem was charged with attempted possession of explosives or incendiary devices. Bond was set at $750,000 and $500,000, respectively.

Sunday's arrests "arose from similar investigations" but were otherwise related to Saturday's arrests, prosecutors said.

Organizers of the protests had initially expected more than 10,000 demonstrators, but that was before the preceding G-8 summit--which had also been scheduled for Chicago--was moved to Camp David in Maryland.

Like the Occupy Wall Street movement, which helped organize Sunday's rally, the demonstrators protesting NATO in Chicago were criticized for lack of a clear message. Via the AP:

Some participants called for the dissolution of NATO, the 63-year-old military alliance that is holding its 25th formal meeting in Chicago. ... Peace activists joined with war veterans and people more focused on the economy. Marchers assembled at Grant Park with signs denouncing NATO, including ones that read: "War(equals)Debt" and "NATO, Go Home."

But the crowd was mostly filled with protesters whose primary concerns had little to do with the discussions at the summit.

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