Posted on 12/20/2014 12:35:31 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Protesters blocking traffic Saturday on Lorain Avenue near West 130th Street clashed with the driver of a van who drove through their protest line.
He blared his horn and slowly drove forward through the crowd. Some of the protesters kicked and punched the van.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
Thanks for the ping...listening to WTAM now.
(Cleveland) - The City of Cleveland, Division of Police is aware of information regarding protests planned for Friday, December 5, 2014 that will likely bring large crowds to the downtown area. As a result of this information, the Division of Police recommends those who are able to leave downtown earlier than normal departure time do so in order to alleviate some of the expected traffic congestion.
In addition, the Division of Police will work to ensure the protection of both the public and demonstrators. The Division of Police recognizes an individual’s right to demonstrate and reminds those who intend to demonstrate that they must do so in a civil manner and in a way that does not violate laws or inconvenience or harm others.
Thank you...I was torn between the two, lay and laid.
Thank you as well...we do have some smart Freepers.
Don`t go to the site, they`re spam central.
You are welcome kackikat.
I have some scars on my knuckles from cane poles that help me remember that....
The protests have been raging all afternoon and have featured, among other things, an evacuation of the Steelyard Commons Wal-Mart and an attempt, foiled by security and Cleveland Police, to enter Tower City on Public Square.
The protesters have been staging die-ins and blocking streets at various intersections downtown, including beneath the GE Chandelier at Playhouse Square.
Cane poles on the knuckles is strictly for amateurs.
I had a funny experience one time that highlighted this for me. I work in information technologies, and one day I overstepped my bounds and did something in a system that I probably shouldn’t have done.
I had the call the people responsible for that system and explain that I had an issue, and I needed help with it. They sent over a lovely woman who I knew, she was very nice and understanding, and I had to bare my soul to her and explain how I had screwed up.
To lighten the mood, as soon as I finished explaining it to her, I handed her a wooden ruler, and extended my hand towards her with my knuckles facing up. I was giving her free reign to discipline me as if I were in third grade.
With no hesitation at all, she grabbed my hand, turned it around so the palm faced up, and gave it a swift, light tap!
I nearly fell on the floor… She knew the rule that all experienced nuns are privy to: never hit your charges on the backs of the hands, because it leaves marks… Always hit them on the palms!
I laughed out loud, and exclaimed “You must’ve been schooled by the nuns!” She was a very dark skinned black woman, and she grinned and told me that she had been schooled by missionaries in Africa!
A pity there couldn’t have had an award named after him first instead of Rachel Corrie...
Too bad he almost got out of the way.
“I’m not that good with punctuation or grammer...”
Me neither, but the article’s use struck me as wrong. It was impossible to not poke fun at it.
“...if they trash their own cities, at least the rest of us don’t have to live in them.”
Maybe not, but we’ll all sure have to pay for rebuilding, them, again, and again, and again.
IMHO
In Cleveland, W130 and Lorraine is far from Cleveland's east side. It's a diverse neighborhood near where the child with the fake gun lived and was shot, but not a source of anything to protest about.
They protested at locations that will discourage people from going "downtown", which only serves to negatively impact businesses in the city and those who shop at them.
The protest that would make sense would be for more neighborhood policing. These idiots are creating just the opposite. I have no idea why they aren't being arrested.
WTH kind of flag is that?
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/us-afro.html
The RED, BLACK and GREEN Flag was unveiled to the world by the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, of the World at it’s first international convention on August 13, 1920. The UNIA-ACL knew that Africans at home and abroad needed their own flag as other flags around the world could not represent the collective of African people.
The use of Red, Black and Green as colors symbolizing African nationhood was first “adopted by the UNIA-ACL as part of the 1920 Declaration of Rights as the official colors of the African race. The question of a flag for the race was not as trivial as might have appeared on the surface, for in the United States especially, the lack of an African symbol of nationhood seems to have been cause for crude derision on the part of whites and a source of sensitivity on the part of Afro-Americans.
The race catechism Garveyites used explained the significance of the red, black, and green as for the “color of the blood which men must shed for their redemption and liberty”, black for “the color of the noble and distinguished race to which we belong,” and green for “the luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland.
Nnamdi Azikewe, 12 April 2000
I’m sorry if it spammed you. I watched the live stream of the riot for about an hour and didn’t have a problem.
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