In a statement, Governor Kasich denied the request saying that “Ohio governors do not have the power to arbitrarily suspend constitutional rights as suggested by police union”. The bonds between communities and our police must be reset and rebuilt-as we’re doing in Ohio-so our communities and officers can both be safe. “We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: There is no justification for violence against law enforcement”.
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Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams says it seems “everyone is coming” to the city to exercise their First Amendment rights.
“Somebody’s got to do something”, Loomis reportedly said Sunday.
Donald Trump already banned guns inside of the convention, an act that has prompted cries of outrage and hypocrisy given that the Republican Party’s subservience to the NRA is the reason we now sell guns legally to suspected terrorists.
On July 7, five police officers were killed in an ambush shooting in Dallas during a demonstration at which about 20 participants carried rifles – which initially caused police to believe they were under attack by multiple snipers.
“We’ve hired special forces teams for security”, the group’s executive director, Tim Selaty, told CNN last week, declining to specify who would provide that extra security. “And that call remains as true today as they did yesterday and it will tomorrow”.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he can not suspend open carry laws because he does not have the authority to do so.
Drivers have a duty to inform law enforcement if they are in possession of a concealed firearm, and concealed firearms aren’t permitted in a several places, including police stations, universities and places of worship.
“Security is important, and I think that they have been planning around the security issues here for over nine months”.
“We are going to be looking very, very hard at anyone who has an open carry”, Loomis said.
Convention CEO Jeff Larson said that organizers remained confident in the security measures now in place and did not expect Kasich to take any new action.
The shooting in Baton Rouge – in which at least three officers were killed – is the latest police tragedy to heighten concerns about security and clashes at the GOP convention, which starts Monday. I had a guy last night standing out there by himself without the benefit of protection of a police vehicle.
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“Things that happen around the country and around the world do affect to some degree how we respond here in Cleveland”, Williams said.
