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sign."Many of the city's 12,000-strong police officers
have undergone training in crowd control, a
spokeswoman said, and a Chicago Fire Department
captain said crews were learning how bring down
protesters from bridges or other landmarks safely.The
city has done its best to cordon off the protesters from
world leaders, forcing organizers of Sunday's march to
move the gathering point further away from the
convention center.Protest leader Andy Thayer said he
was disappointed that the U.S. Secret Service, which
takes the lead role for security at such events, had
drawn a security zone around the summit site that
pushed demonstrators out of "sight and sound" of
delegates.The Secret Service ordered tall, metal
fences that are both "non-scalable" and "resistant to
thrown liquids" as part of the security zone several
blocks around the summit site.Two busy highways that
pass next to the convention center, one of them
Chicago's signature Lake Shore Drive, will be closed to
traffic. No planes will be allowed and even yacht
owners cannot moor their boats nearby, prompting one
boat owner to ask for a discount on the city's $5,400
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mooring fee.Transportation bottlenecks are expected
as police escort motorcades carrying NATO delegates
around the city.The mantra from city officials at
frequent briefings has been that police will not interfere
with protesters' right to demonstrate as long as the
city's business is not disrupted. At the same time, a
spokesman for local sheriff Tom Dart has stressed that
there is plenty of room in the county jails.The main risk,
security experts said, is that so-called "BlackBloc"
anarchists will wreak havoc.A recent tweet posted on
the Twitter site of blackbloc, a shadowy anarchist
group, said: "blackbloc comrades, keep a low profile till
u are forced 2 act. We do no 1 any good in jail all
day."Micah Philbrook, a spokesman for the Chicago
Occupy movement, said the protesters were not
planning any violence."The police are the ones armed
to the teeth," he said. "We carry signs and beat
drums."(Additional reporting by Emmett Berg in San
Francisco; Editing by Greg McCune and David
Brunnstrom)
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