ayman? >> reporter: we're here on lakeside drive in cleveland just outside the security perimeter and you can see some of the heavy police presence here in cleveland. a couple of numbers through the scale of this operation here to secure this republican convention this year. they have booked about 5,500 total officers to secure the rnc this week. they say they have purchased 10,000 extra sets of handcuffs and they have also cleared 1,000 beds in local jails for any protesters that they happen to arrest in the course of the week w. the political tensions seen in the country over the past several months and the shootings over the past week and a half or so, around the country, tensions are very, very high here. let me show you some pictures now that we have taken just a couple of minutes ago. these are pictures of a protest that's happening just a couple of blocks away from where we are outside the q and what we're told about these protest pictures is looking here at anti-trump protesters runn