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White officer pepper sprays crowd at Black Lives Matter summit in Cleveland
theguardian.com ^ | 7/27/2015 | Afi Scruggs

Posted on 07/27/2015 5:43:56 AM PDT by GoneSalt

A transit police officer has pepper-sprayed a crowd in Cleveland protesting the arrest of a 14-year-old at a Black Lives Matter conference inspired by police brutality.

The incident occurred near Cleveland State University in the city’s downtown where the first Black Lives Matter conference was taking place. More than 1,200 participants spent the weekend organizing and discussing a range of social justice issues.

According to the Greater Cleveland regional transit authority, its officers were taking an intoxicated teenage bus rider to a police station just as the conference was ending about 5pm. A large crowd blocked the squad car and tried to get the youngster out. One of the officers turned and began pepper-spraying the crowd.

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1 posted on 07/27/2015 5:43:56 AM PDT by GoneSalt
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To: GoneSalt

Smells like....”Victory”


2 posted on 07/27/2015 5:47:29 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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its officers were taking an intoxicated teenage bus rider to a police station just as the conference was ending about 5pm. A large crowd blocked the squad car and tried to get the youngster out.

So, is the movement's motto going to change to "Drunk Black Lives Matter"?

3 posted on 07/27/2015 5:48:23 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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"“Cleveland looks just like Ferguson, looks just like Baltimore, looks just like all of these places that have high oppression,” local organizer Malaya Davis told the Northeast Ohio Media Group referring to the cities which have seen unrest in the wake of black men at the hands of police,"

Cleveland is more than 50% black by population. There's a black mayor and a black police chief. Local government is completely dominated by Democrats and has been for decades.

Cleveland should be a liberal paradise, yet somehow white Republicans are still oppressing Malaya's people.
4 posted on 07/27/2015 5:50:08 AM PDT by chrisser (This space for rent.)
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To: Turbo Pig

Stopping lawless black mobs matters


5 posted on 07/27/2015 5:50:21 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war. ntinuing)
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To: Turbo Pig

“All black criminals matter”


6 posted on 07/27/2015 5:50:26 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: GoneSalt

Blacks want to make the police so intimidated that blacks will get free passes for various petty crimes (like above and drug dealing) and some more serious crimes


7 posted on 07/27/2015 5:50:35 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: null and void; Nachum; Kartographer; LucyT; butterdezillion; INVAR; Dick Bachert; GOPJ; BCW; ...
H/T to our FRiend GoneSalt for the post.

A cop pepper-sprays protestors yelling about police brutality. The irony is inescapable...

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

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8 posted on 07/27/2015 5:50:58 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: GoneSalt

The police had arrested a 14 year old drunk teen. The mob was trying to prevent the police from leaving with the teen, and to make the police let him go. The cops responded by pepper-spraying the mob.


9 posted on 07/27/2015 5:52:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: dennisw
Blacks want to make the police so intimidated that blacks will get free passes for various petty crimes (like above and drug dealing) and some more serious crimes

That is EXACTLY the objective. They want immunity from arrest.

10 posted on 07/27/2015 5:53:39 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: GoneSalt

The GOP convention coming up in Cleveland will be a bloodbath.


11 posted on 07/27/2015 5:54:58 AM PDT by hlmencken3 (I paid for an argument, but you're just contradicting!)
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To: GoneSalt

The headline is 100% rubbish.

The headline is meant to imply the only reason the officer pepper sprayed the crowd was because they were black and he was white. Why else would they mention his race?

It’s meant to stir things up and endanger all police.


12 posted on 07/27/2015 5:55:27 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: dennisw

Thats not really it.

The leadership element sees things like this as an opportunity to increas their own power and wealth. Everything else is just collateral damage.

The rank and file really buy into the propaganda, and don’t realize the cyclical cause/effect feedback loop the actions they’re spurred to by their own leaders create. When the cops back off (see Baltimore), the criminal element takes advantage of the situation (inevitable and predictable, but not intended) and THEY become the collateral damage, they wonder wtf happened. All while the leadership element has moved on to another issue or even venue.


13 posted on 07/27/2015 5:59:08 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: GoneSalt

Sad thing is they always go with just the headlines like the one written here. To hell with any facts.


14 posted on 07/27/2015 5:59:47 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: dennisw

What you say sounds like blacks want to be treated like government employees and politicians.


15 posted on 07/27/2015 6:04:06 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: hlmencken3

These a55wipes have already stated they are going to do their best to disrupt the Convention.


16 posted on 07/27/2015 6:05:07 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: jughandle

They are not interested in facts.


17 posted on 07/27/2015 6:05:25 AM PDT by sport
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To: GoneSalt

Did he use white, black, or red pepper in the spray?


18 posted on 07/27/2015 6:07:46 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: GoneSalt

I agree...pepper spray was uncalled for...

...Guns blazing would have been more appropriate


19 posted on 07/27/2015 6:08:47 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Turbo Pig

Interfering or impeding the duties of a cop in most jurisdictions is a felony. all things considered He showed restraint.

CC


20 posted on 07/27/2015 6:09:54 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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