A few hours later, torrential downpours and a flash flood warning sent protesters running north to shelter, past the still-closed Broad and Pattison Avenues station, as lines of bike cops snaked past. Thousands of protesters who had spent the day in the streets and the evening chanting at delegates that "Bernie beats Trump!" ran for the subways, to waiting cars or to awnings outside the few businesses on South Broad outside the convention's security fencing.