Posted on 05/24/2015 7:30:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CLEVELAND — Cleveland police made 71 arrests Saturday during protests against the Michael Brelo verdict, Police Chief Calvin Williams said Sunday. Authorities attempted to give demonstrators the space to exercise their First Amendment rights, but they had no choice but to make arrests when the protests became violent or when protesters refused to disperse, he said.
Police arrested demonstrators in downtown Cleveland on Saturday night following the acquittal of a police officer who stood trial in the 2012 shooting deaths of two unarmed people.
CNN video showed police in riot gear moving down East Fourth Street, a strip of restaurants, and pushing back protesters. The officers yelled, “Move back!” in unison as they advanced.
A CNN crew saw at least 15 people being taken into custody by police in riot gear, accompanied by troopers. They were loaded into vans and taken away.
Three people were arrested for aggravated riot, felonious assault and obstructing justice after an object was thrown through a restaurant window, injuring a patron, police said in in a tweet.
Multiple arrests were made at East Fourth Street because of “unlawful behavior by large crowd,” another tweet said. Police appeared to greatly outnumber protesters.
Protesters took to the streets immediately after Judge John P. O’Donnell acquitted Officer Michael Brelo on charges of voluntary manslaughter and felonious assault.
The crowd assembled outside the judicial center in Cleveland for two hours following the announcement of the verdict.
Some chanted “no justice, no peace” and “black lives matter,” words heard in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York, where sometimes-violent demonstrations occurred after African-Americans died at the hands of white police officers....
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I am proud that my hometown did not dissolve into a Baltimore. I was pretty confident and hopeful that it wouldn’t. Cleveland is not much of a rioting town, nowadays. We don’t have the same political “reverends” as other cities.
And for those unfamiliar, it is worth mentioning that the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic is located in “the hood.” It stretches many blocks. The Clinic provides a massive number of jobs for this area, known as Fairfax (you can look this up, if you wish). It would have been an amazing amount of stupidity to riot and destroy. This is one of the things that separates Cleveland from other cities — the 2nd biggest employer in the state of Ohio is headquartered in a poor neighborhood. This was not true in either Ferguson or Baltimore.
Did all the looters get their new Lebron shoes?
The guy led the cops on a 100mph chase for 22 miles in Cleveland, ramming police cars, etc.. You need to get a better source for info!
Chances are they probably had to duck bullets from their fellow residents on the way to the rally.
How does one “obstruct justice” by throwing an object through a restaurant window and injuring a patron?
Either that or the time line from the journalistic point of view is misconstrued
from the facts given to them. It just got bundled in.
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