Some called the police “pigs” and began shouting at Cleveland’s police chief, Calvin Williams. That has prompted concerns about the group’s intentions, Williams said.
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Police say 17 people have been arrested during a chaotic protest outside the arena housing the Republican National Convention.
The only arrest that did occur was one of a woman who was picked up on a felony warrant who faces misdemeanor charges of obstruction and resisting arrest.
This was the sight in Public Square Tuesday afternoon. The Dayton Daily News reports he had an unexcused absence from electronic monitoring while meeting last week with an academic adviser. Trial is scheduled next month.
Supporters of Donald Trump and those against him shouted back and forth at one another, but nothing violent took place as far as this reporter witnessed. No more details on the arrest were immediately available.
The Cleveland Police Department said that two officers were assaulted, and received minor injuries during the protests, and that multiple participants were arrested.
The convention is a magnet for people supporting and denouncing disparate causes, from policing to immigration.
About 600 Cleveland officers were assigned to convention security duty along with thousands of officers from other agencies.
But as the gavel dropped on the Republican National Convention on Monday, the scene on the streets continued to reflect the First Amendment rather than the Second. He said he supports police and Black Lives Matter.
Speaking Monday at a Bloomberg Politics breakfast for reporters, Manafort likened the impact of disruption on images of protesters making it hard for Trump to get into one of his own events in California earlier in the year.
I think it’s real hard if you don’t have a unifying message.
Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, said disruptions by protesters could work to the candidate’s political advantage.
Chris Christie got a standing ovation from the MI delegation at the RNC when he spoke about his pledge to support the Republican candidate for president. They started marching toward the Quicken Loans Arena, where the convention is being held, and many said they expect to be here all week.
Trump, a wealthy NY real estate developer, has drawn the ire of many Americans with proposals that include building a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border and restricting immigration from Muslim-dominated countries.
Melania Trump was the first of several of Donald Trump’s family members who are on the list of speakers at the Cleveland convention this week.
An overwhelming police presence clearly has helped.
There’s been much discussion about open carry as the convention gets underway Monday.
The right to openly carry handguns and even assault rifles in OH and in dozens of other states is the result of a very successful political strategy executed by individual activists and a collection of gun rights groups that want to “normalize” the presence of guns in public. That gathering had more of a focus, summed up with large banners reading “Dump Trump”. He says it’s more about exercising their rights.
Cleveland’s police chief was talking to the crowd before one of the skirmishes broke out. Kasich countered that he doesn’t have the authority to do so.
For a few minutes, people wearing bandanas riled things up, and then a calmness returned and remained for the day.
The city’s police chief said he spent three hours Tuesday evening riding with bicycle officers on patrol and that he waded into one confrontation because he’s “still a police officer”.
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Overall, five people have been arrested since the four-day convention started on Monday, police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said late Tuesday. He said he doesn’t like Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the USA, but he agrees with the GOP nominee on national security and other issues.
