On the anniversary of a prominent conservative's assassination, Dallas became the site of a collision between political opposition and state authority, as police in riot gear arrested two demonstrators outside a Republican convention where President Trump was set to speak. The episode distills a recurring tension in American civic life: the contested boundary between dissent and disorder, and who gets to draw it. What unfolded on the streets of Dallas was less a singular event than a symptom of a political climate in which the act of gathering itself has become charged with consequence.
Two arrested as socialist protesters clash with police near GOP convention in Dallas
Two protesters arrested during confrontation with Dallas police in riot gear.