A lawyer for the Republican National Committee sent a letter to the Secret Service asking the agency to move the area designated for protestors during the July convention in Milwaukee further away from the convention site so attendees will not have to walk past them, the Washington Post reports. The city’s Orwellian named “Free Speech Zone” is located between two main walkways into Fiserv Forum, the arena hosting the event.
“This 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,” whined the lawyer for the RNC. “As recent college and university campus clashes make plain, forced proximity heightens tensions among peaceful attendees and demonstrators of differing ideologies and increases the risk of escalation to verbal, or even physical, clashes and corresponding law enforcement intervention.”