Concerns?

Not just concerns. "Serious concerns:"

• With the Democratic National Convention less than two months away, a coalition of community organizations voiced “serious concerns” Thursday about the Chicago Police Department’s newly revised mass arrest policy.

  The overhaul stems from closed-door meetings authorized by the federal judge presiding over the department’s court-ordered reform push after the so-called consent decree coalition warned that an earlier version of the policy “eviscerates protections” that are otherwise granted to protesters.

  In a court filing, the coalition acknowledges the latest draft policy contains various “improvements,” including changes that ban the controversial containment tactic known as “kettling” and prohibit officers from arresting protesters for minor offenses unless they pose a public safety threat, damage property or disobey a dispersal order.

  However, the coalition notes that “serious deficiencies remain.”

Anyone noticing anything unusual?

• these "restrictions" are on the police - not the "protestors"
  

Our tactics, our actions, our arrest powers - all limited. And you can bet that the paid agitators will be butting up against the limits and then gleefully leaping over the line into law breaking before retreating and hiding among the people who think they're actually protesting.

We've seen it before, again and again. It comes out in the after-action reports, but in the meantime, the media paints a certain picture, the lawyers file endless lawsuits, cops get stripped and run through the wringer (for years afterwards), and the City pays out to the guilty parties for being better actors.