“Protesting used to have consequences.”

[madamesilverspurs]

Trump says “protesting used to have consequences.” He’s right.

Then we fought a revolution and won, and protest was written as a valued and legally protected part of the conversation of democracy.

Trump must have learned history at his defunct university.

[Peregrine Took]

1. 'thinking about the head cracking that went on in Chgo. In 1968.

Wishing it could go on again.

[Kip Humphrey]

2. Still does only this time the consequences were shutting you down, Donald Trump!

[lancer78]

3. As much as I disagree

with many, almost all of what Trump has to say, I disagree with preventing him from being able to speak freely, at a rally intended to allow him to talk about what he believes in is even worse, Much Worse. What these people are saying is if you don't agree with our philosophy, no matter how right, or wrong it is, You do not get to speak. As far as I am concerned anyone who prevents a rally for any candidate should be arrested and prosecuted.
If you want to show your dissatisfaction with a candidate, then you should either demonstrate peaceably, or go and support a candidate who agrees with your way of thinking.

[kas125]

4. There were representatives from the Chicago police department on the

local Chicago news tonight. They said they had the way cleared and the situation outside controlled and that Trump could have held his rally if he'd chosen to. They said he chose not to and that he was not prevented from speaking.

[intrepidity]

5. Exactly. It was a calculation by Trump himself to not appear

he knows exactly what he was doing. He wants to make it appear that he is the victim here.

He is a coward, through and through.

[lancer78]

6. Wasn't a policeman

injured tonight? If so, that would give CPD enough reason to call Trump and tell him to postpone the rally.

[Person 2713]

8. No they did not See police statement in post 7

[kas125]

9. They did show a police officer with a little cut on his head. I looked and

there isn't video of the two police guys who said it was under control and that Trump could have spoken if he'd chosen to on the website, but I'll look again tomorrow and see if it's there. It was at the very end of tonight's WGN news broadcast.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. The officer was injured AFTER Trump canceled.

The Chicago police released an official statement - they did NOT advise him to cancel his little white power rally.

[Person 2713]

7. Trump shut it down per police statement

A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department says the agency never recommended that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cancel his campaign rally in the city.

CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tells The Associated Press that the department never told the Trump campaign there was a security threat at the University of Illinois at Chicago venue. He said the department had sufficient manpower on the scene to handle any situation.

Guglielmi says the university's police department also did not recommend that Trump call off the event. He says the decision was made "independently" by the campaign.

Trump cancelled the rally in Chicago due to what organizers said were safety concerns after protesters packed into the arena where it was to take place

[flamingdem]

11. It needs to be broadcast widely that Trump knowingly lied about this

Why does the media let him lie?

[Jim Beard]

12. Thank you for saving me time for not having to write so much.

I am not against free speech or protesting, its just the way it is done. To be honest, I was really pissed about the way the BLM people took the microphone away from Bernie, It made a very negative impact on me.

The best I can remember about the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention was the protesters were on the OUTSIDE of the convention building. Protest but have some respect.