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I am confused, have these protests been shut down? The various cities seem fairly accommodating to me.
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http://www.10news.com/news/29456764/detail.html

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The cost to have a police presence is mounting. Each day, 10News learned the police department pays more than $10,000 to have officers watch the protestors. The dollar figure is already more than $49,000, and that doesn’t include overtime for the 22 officers who were called back for Friday night’s march through downtown.
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