Posted on 05/12/2016 7:14:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
CLEVELAND – When Republicans held their 2008 national convention in Minneapolis, demonstrators ran through the streets smashing windows and dumping trash cans.
Similarly rowdy protests already are following presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump wherever he goes – but will Cleveland, the site of this year’s convention and a city already reeling from racially charged police-shooting cases, be ready?
Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, says they’re not yet.
“I don’t think that we’re anywhere we need to be for it,” Loomis said.
He warned that 2,000 riot suits were ordered late. And cops were not measured until after the order was placed. Meanwhile, bikes for mounted patrols have not arrived -- and Loomis says there is not adequate time to train with the gear.
“You have to be proficient in being able to use this stuff and right now, we're not,” he said. “We don't even have gas masks at this point."
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If the cops allow it, the “protesters” will murder the delegates and other attendees. The cops are telling the GOP they are not going to stop the rioters.
The city cops are a union aspect of the Democrat Party (the rioters). Why the GOP picked Cleveland, is just more careless and stupid on display. Of all places!
If the RNC official website page is any indication of how the GOP runs things (and we know that all too well) then it’s no wonder the country is doing down the drain. I spent the last 5-7 minutes looking all over it and can not find one place where they mention the dates. Dates, people, simple dates. How obvious is that? Come on, that’s the second thing you should post right after placing RNC at the top of page #1.
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