CHARLOTTE,NC Protesters have been going out to take the streets day and night throughout the DNC, with little to no problems with police.
The only semi-violent interactions with the police were one bystander resisting arrest and when on an Anti-capitalist march Black Bloc using a five foot by ten foot black canvas flag as a shield to push through a police line and the police out of fear grabbed the flag, attempting to pull it out of the marcher’s hands.
Yesterday Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a statement on his Senate website outlining the current situation Americans are facing, “With 23.7 MILLION AMERICANS UNEMPLOYED OR UNDER EMPLOYED, 15 % of our workforce,” these numbers do not include the number of people incarcerated (2.3 million), the largest in the world. The United States has only 5% of the worlds population and almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.
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