Posted on 12/30/2015 12:35:36 PM PST by EBH
Referring to requests by Mayor Frank Jackson asking people to keep their demonstrations peaceful, activist Basheer Jones said, "I want to make it clear to the City of Cleveland, is that you will not determine what civil disobedience means to us. We will determine what civil disobedience means to us. And if that means we are arrested, what that means to you, it means to us."
The coalition members are calling for people to vote against Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty in the Democratic primary in March. It was McGinty who announced on Monday that the grand jury voted to not indict the officers. The coalition has not yet said who they'll support for prosecutor.
Read more: http://www.wtam.com/articles/wtam-local-news-122520/coalition-calls-for-civil-unrest-in-14233910#ixzz3vq3IGeDX Referring to requests by Mayor Frank Jackson asking people to keep their demonstrations peaceful, activist Basheer Jones said, "I want to make it clear to the City of Cleveland, is that you will not determine what civil disobedience means to us. We will determine what civil disobedience means to us. And if that means we are arrested, what that means to you, it means to us."
The coalition members are calling for people to vote against Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty in the Democratic primary in March. It was McGinty who announced on Monday that the grand jury voted to not indict the officers. The coalition has not yet said who they'll support for prosecutor.
Read more: http://www.wtam.com/articles/wtam-local-news-122520/coalition-calls-for-civil-unrest-in-14233910#ixzz3vq3IGeDX
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#PbMassMatters
Ping the local Ohio list!
WTAM is reporting there are more reporters than protestors at the moment. LOL
Calling for civil disobedience is a very American thing to do — but calling for insurrection is criminal is it not?
#StopBlackViolence
Obama is behind this.
Voting against McGinty is NOT civil unrest. It’s the natural and normal recourse if you feel he should have prosecuted those cops.
Civil unrest is burning down a Quik Trip or a CVS. That’s what really matters to the BLM morons.
I don’t think the officers should be charged. However the way they handled the situation, pulling right up on the perp and shooting him in about 2 seconds leads me to think these guys aren’t Police material. I think I would either get rid of them or assign them a desk job.
I believe so...but heh, it is just a mythical belief these days.
WKYC has the video from the press conference earlier today. It can’t be posted here because it is Gannett.
If they really want to punish people, she should burn down their own neighborhoods. That will show them!
Keep in mind this is Cleveland where the RNC convention is scheduled to take place.
Perhaps, but reaching for your BB gun as soon as the cops dismount isn't real smart, either.
#FeetPerSecondsMatter
Black America: You’re angry, you should be. You’ve been oppressed. You’ve been robbed. Your children have been murdered. You’re slaves of the political class. All their wealth was acquired at your expense. Your stuff is in the houses of leftists. God take it back!
“but calling for insurrection is criminal is it not?”
That’s what we were taught in canada and even in other Commonwealth territories such as Australia etc. The Revolutionary War was called “the Insurrection”. Civil disobedience to black peeps is “disruption” like rioting at the mall etc.
I think they were approaching based on an assumption derived from the 911 call, and I paraphrase: Man with a gun waving it around and pointing it at people. If both the citizen who made the call and the police who responded to it had taken the time to observe from a slight distance they both may have noticed the "man" was a boy and the "gun" was not a firearm. But that's hindsight.
The core of the BLM protests are mostly white now days.
“What you are about to see in Cleveland, you have never seen before. Activists are coming to Cleveland from all around the country to protest...” ~~Basheer
Sounds like a threat to me.
The real problem that needs to be addressed is why there isn't any community policing where people actually live. Where this happened, it's incredible the police weren't at least driving by on a regular basis.
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