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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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To: Pearls Before Swine

Red Pepper. It was at the Cleveland Indians game.


21 posted on 07/27/2015 6:10:25 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I dunno. What color is cayenne? That’s the source of most pepper spray.

CC


22 posted on 07/27/2015 6:13:07 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: Turbo Pig

Sounds more like a new leftist “commandment”:

Thou shalt not enforce YT’s law on a person of color.


23 posted on 07/27/2015 6:13:56 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Red.


24 posted on 07/27/2015 6:17:11 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: GoneSalt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdlox9n-lU


25 posted on 07/27/2015 6:18:12 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: GoneSalt

So basically they want the right to be able to pull people from squad cars, disrespect and ignore lawful orders, anytime, any where they please, and if the cops take action it’s racism?


26 posted on 07/27/2015 6:18:44 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

There ‘ya go.

No charge.

CC


27 posted on 07/27/2015 6:20:26 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof)
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To: 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.”

Stopped right there - the guardian doesn’t even make a good birdcage liner.


28 posted on 07/27/2015 6:20:30 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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To: 2banana

I love that smell.


29 posted on 07/27/2015 6:23:01 AM PDT by RC one
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To: GoneSalt

Will be interesting to see how Kasich handles this. He’d better get some handles on Cleveland before Convention.


30 posted on 07/27/2015 6:23:02 AM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: PapaBear3625

“Making the police let him go” is the legal definition of the crime known as lynching. So I guess their new slogan is “Black Lynchings Matter”.


31 posted on 07/27/2015 6:29:16 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: GoneSalt

“Youngster”...yeah a drunk, aggressive 15 year old is now just a sweet “youngster,” a word that used to refer to children.


32 posted on 07/27/2015 6:32:20 AM PDT by livius
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To: GoneSalt

They’re supposed to write a “black unarmed crowd.”


33 posted on 07/27/2015 6:33:01 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: GoneSalt

So the headline identifies the race of the officer but not the race(s) of those in the mob?


34 posted on 07/27/2015 6:36:12 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: hlmencken3

The city will burn.


35 posted on 07/27/2015 6:36:55 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: GoneSalt
youngster

Yet another synonym for "black, urban, criminal-class male thug".

36 posted on 07/27/2015 6:37:59 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: GoneSalt

That leftist rag wants the readers to think that the “White” cop pepper sprayed a “Black” crowd for no reason. The truth is that the rag is lying and is trying to stir up racial hatred and White Guilt.


37 posted on 07/27/2015 6:38:53 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: chrisser
“Cleveland looks just like Ferguson, looks just like Baltimore, looks just like all of these places that have high oppression,”

Let's just ignore the lowest common denominator.

38 posted on 07/27/2015 6:39:46 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Celtic Conservative

A fresh ripe cayenne chili is bright, fire-engine red.

Oleoresin capsicum, near as I can tell, is colorless.


39 posted on 07/27/2015 6:40:21 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: windcliff
The city will burn.

Won't be the first time ...

40 posted on 07/27/2015 6:41:20 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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