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The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Yahoo News about her decision to march in the parade, but sources volunteering on her campaign said the team’s participation had been planned for multiple weeks and was a top priority. Each years events commemorate the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 the beginning of the modern Gay Rights movement. “Thousands of uniformed officers were to line the route, supplemented by plainclothes officers in the crowd.”Ī presidential candidate’s scheduled appearance at such an event would have undoubtedly complicated that plan. “New York police planned to deploy roving counterterrorism units and use bomb-sniffing dogs, rooftop observation posts, police helicopters and thousands of officers to provide extra layers of security at Sunday’s parade,” the Associated Press reported.

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