GOP asks for pro­test­ers’ ‘First Amend­ment Zone’ to be moved fur­ther from RNC con­ven­tion venue

The Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion is report­ed­ly request­ing the Secret Ser­vice move the First Amend­ment protest zone away from the are­na in Mil­wau­kee, Wis­con­sin, where the par­ty is slat­ed to hold its nom­i­nat­ing con­ven­tion for the 2024 elec­tion sea­son. 
Accord­ing to recent reports, the RNC is request­ing that the agency move the protest zone from the near­by city park a quar­ter-mile from the are­na due to secu­ri­ty con­cerns for event atten­dees.
The RNC is sched­uled to hold its pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nat­ing con­ven­tion at the Fis­erv Forum in down­town Mil­wau­kee, near the Mil­wau­kee Riv­er. The Pere Mar­quette Park, which abuts the riv­er, is the cur­rent­ly des­ig­nat­ed free speech zone out­side of the event.
Attor­ney for the RNC Rod Stegger­da wrote to the Secret Ser­vice, Kim­ber­ly Chea­tle, that the cur­rent loca­tion of the protest zone “will force thou­sands of peace­ful atten­dees and demon­stra­tors, who may oth­er­wise choose to avoid or lim­it direct, prox­i­mate engage­ment with one anoth­er, to be in extreme­ly close, con­sis­tent, and unavoid­able prox­im­i­ty.”

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