Protest cost locals $180,000

COLUMBUS - Last weekend&#39;s protest against a U.S. military program cost the city of Columbus about $180,000. <br> <br> But the local chamber of commerce had estimated it would generate at least five million dollars for the city. <br> <br> Mayor Bobby Peters says it spent $130,000 on law enforcement and other services during the two-day protest against the program at Fort Benning that trains Latin American soldiers. <br> <br> Fort Benning spokeswoman Monica Manganaro says the post spent about $50,000 <br> <br> About six-thousand people attended the annual demonstration by the group School of the Americas Watch -- one-thousand more than the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce had expected beforehand. <br> <br> The chamber has not yet released updated revenue figures. <br> <br> School of America&#39;s Watch conducts the protests to mark the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador. The group says the U.S. program had trained Latin American soldiers involved in the killings.