On Wednesday, police arrested over a dozen people as scuffles broke out during a flag-burning protest in the streets outside the Republican National Convention. The chaos at one point briefly prevented delegates and members of the media from getting into the Quicken Loans Arena. Lt. Michael Butler said in a statement that 16 people in total were taken into custody and would be charged. Carl Dix, a representative of Revolutionary Communist Party, said the group organized the burning of the American flag as a "political statement about the crimes of the American empire," adding, "There's nothing great about America."
