CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Confrontations between protesters and police grew as the Democratic convention opened Tuesday, with a dramatic, two-hour standoff on an uptown street producing the week’s tensest moments. Demonstrators seemed to test police boundaries, taunting officers and blocking a street a few blocks south of the convention site. Police responded with smothering numbers and a bend-but-don’t-break strategy to corral the protesters, but made only one arrest. Later Tuesday, police arrested 10 undocumented immigrants, reform advocates, who sat down in an uptown intersection and refused to move. In a separate incident, two other protesters were charged with disrupting a...
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