Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling said in March that Chicago police “will protect all those exercising their first amendment rights” in and around the convention. “What we will not tolerate is criminal activity,” he added. “Violence, vandalism will not be tolerated.”
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00:18 These officers are going to be dealing with a lot.
00:20 They're going to be dealing with volatile situations.
00:23 They're going to be asked to stand down in situations where the average human being would respond, probably violently.
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00:34 As you can see, the training focuses on discipline.
00:39 We want to make sure that our officers are disciplined, that they're working together.
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00:50 Personally, I think if you polled all the officers here and said, would you like to have or not have a body camera,
00:56 I absolutely believe the overwhelming, if not the entirety of the response would be, I absolutely want a camera.
01:02 Those businesses will have security.
01:04 We're looking at protections in front of those locations so people can't drive into those locations.