Two of those arrested were charged with felonious assault on a police officer, the rest with failure to disperse.
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The case dated to Johnson’s burning of a flag outside the Republican National Convention in Dallas in 1984.
That brought to 22 the number of people arrested during the convention, well below the many hundreds some feared.
Williams said police have changed their tactics in response to recent attacks including the one in Nice, France, on July 14 by placing barriers or barricades at key streets and intersections downtown.
Kasich says the bonds between communities and police must be reset and rebuilt.
Sixteen-year-old Hashime Hill, of Cleveland, approached Williams as the chief was making his rounds Wednesday afternoon. The rest is the responsibility of a police force including thousands of officers from agencies from California to Florida who have been sworn in with arrest powers in the city. Pushing and shoving broke out, and police began pinning people to the ground and handcuffing them.
Police say the flag was extinguished and taken away.
“Don’t tell me it can’t be done”, Loomis said of his request to Kasich.
Protesters clash with police on Tuesday, July 19, 2016, in Cleveland, during the second day of the Republican convention.
There were no reported skirmishes between the pro- and anti-Trump groups, only some yelling, thanks to the heavy police presence. One officer was seen bleeding from an elbow.
Police wearing riot helmets arrived on the scene and police horses were being used to create a path to a van for people being detained. They were about 120 officers standing in the middle of the Square as a group, as if they had launched a silent protest of their own, so we began to head back in the direction of our de facto home base while we’re here in Cleveland, only to run into what appeared to be the original group of protesters.
Sunday afternoon, a man with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a handgun and ammunition stood in downtown’s Public Square saying he was there to exercise his rights and make a point.
Nearby, a group assembled a mosaic of white on black cards with words and phrases meant to underscore unity and tolerance. He said he was in Cleveland for the RNC and to show his support to activists.
There were no signs of trouble.
“It’s game time”, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said Sunday morning, “and we’re ready for it”.
Radio host, Alex Jones was going through the crowd with a bullhorn. “And that call remains as true today as they did yesterday and it will tomorrow”.
Chief Williams: No real issues so far.
“Somebody’s got to do something”, Loomis reportedly said Sunday.
The health commissioner for Ohio’s Erie County said Wednesday that the 11 people who fell ill are recovering and taking precautions not to spread norovirus, or what’s commonly known as stomach flu.
The day’s demonstrations started with a few dozen people holding banners printed with a red-brick design and forming a human wall to mock Donald Trump’s plan to seal off the Mexican border.
Anti-government and anti-racism protesters are set to burn an American flag Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
“We’ve heard reports from different sources about everyone from anarchists, to black separatists, to, you know, just regular Trump followers, anti-Trump followers”, Williams said on CBS.
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The bicycle officers have literally kept protesters in line, turning their bikes sideways to keep opposing protest groups apart.
