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Posted on 07/21/2016 9:51:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Even on Tuesday afternoon, during perhaps the largest protest so far, media and reporters easily outnumbered demonstrators.
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After the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals in June, the team beckoned some 1.3 million people to the city to celebrate....
While Cleveland and Akron have their share of Democratic voters, Ohio is still far from the elite coastal bastions of liberalism where politics plays like sports.
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There’s nowhere to stay
Even people who are here in Cleveland on official business have had to book accommodations outside the city—some as far away as Akron—thanks to Cleveland’s relatively limited hotel capacity. The new Hilton Cleveland Downtown, a tower that opened in May not far from the venue for the RNC, adds just 600 rooms to the city’s supply. Prices for hotels downtown are running for as much as $1,000 a night (though most are charging less).
While protesters might have looked to Airbnb for alternatives, rates for those rooms skyrocketed in advance of the event, too. The market isn’t perfect: Rates for Airbnb units still available now are not marked as high as they were before the start of the event. But the lack of reasonably priced advance accommodations may have kept protesters away.
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There’s still time...
The public spaces around the Q, where the RNC is being held, are open plazas, even discounting the space closed off to demonstrations by the Secret Service. One exception is East 4th Street, a nightlife corridor where a number of news organizations have rented out restaurants to serve as pop-up news bureaus....It’s a potential flashpoint: Were a skirmish to break out between liberal and conservative demonstrators, police would need to fight through crowds to reach the agitators. And 4th Street runs directly into the Q.
(Excerpt) Read more at citylab.com ...
It's not over yet; lets hope it stays that way.
You have to admit, that little incident added an immortal line to the American political vocabulary. “YOU’RE ON FIRE, STUPID!”
Perhaps Cleveland is interested in upholding law and order unlike San Jose, Chicago and the others.
There will probably be violence at the DNC next week. The protesters are probably getting rest.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watters-world-rnc-protest-edition-010200601.html
“Bikers for Trump”
Bingo!
well if Chuck D says so, I should probably stay home in November. He’s a political genius after all.
I think they’re waiting to mob the DNC, then conduct a false flag op that will be blamed on Trump with enemedia assistance.
Hope I’m wrong, though.
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Another tiny protest going now. No more than 150 people, 75 photographers, 50 polices.
Soros forgot to write their checks.
Or, he wrote their checks too early, and they’re stoned out of their minds somewhere.
Will it be like the FREE SPEECH ZONES they had at the 2014 DNC Convention ?
They are setting themselves on fire apparently.
Check the burn wards.
Ha! Wow.
If they really spent $750k on protest ops for the RNC, they got ripped off.
The media really wanted violence and chaos. That’s just how the left works.
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You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” - Rahm Emanuel
From the article: “Black Lives Matter decided to skip Cleveland altogether. These leaders aim instead to focus their attention on the Democratic National Convention”
That shows that it was a command decision by the hard left. The goon squads and provocateurs were not given marching orders. Maybe they are saving one headline attack for tonight.
Prayers up for the Philly PD.
Streaming Live protester retards here.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XpKOGm-7Y
“Is this author suggesting something? “
The conclusion of the article is highlighting the best place to create an incident, which they have searched out - lots of media on hand, and constrained space to focus their small numbers for the cameras:
“East 4th Street, a nightlife corridor where a number of news organizations have rented out restaurants to serve as pop-up news bureaus. Along this corridor, the pedestrian avenue is narrow and cramped, thanks to wide iron gates enclosing restaurant patios along both sides of the street. It’s a potential flashpoint: Were a skirmish to break out between liberal and conservative demonstrators, police would need to fight through crowds to reach the agitators. “
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