Progressive One

Volatile mix awaits GOP in July

Cleveland convention will have angry supporters, protesters, troubled police force.

BY MATT PEARCE
CLEVELAND — This summer, parallel swarms of Republican supporters and left-wing activists will descend on downtown Cleveland for what could be the most turbulent p**********l nominating convention since the 1960s.
Republican national conventions are often protested by activists in large numbers. But this year, the forces converging on the convention threaten to make for an explosive mix: a city scarred by police shootings and simmering with racial tension; a candidate who has threatened that his supporters will r**t if he comes with the most delegates but leaves without the nomination; and a police force with a reputation for brutality.
“I’m really concerned all hell is going to break loose,” said James L. Hardiman, a vice president of the Cleveland NAACP, who noted community members were expressing concerns about the convention “every other day.” “The big concern is injury to people, damage to property, indiscriminate arrest. The people who actually live here — what are we going to be left with at the end of the day?”
Donald Trump’s campaign rallies have become magnets for violence not normally seen at such events. Some protesters have gotten punched and kicked by Trump supporters, and others have fought with supporters outside rallies.
This month, black, Muslim and Latino activist groups helped shut down a Trump rally in Chicago. More audacious and often risky protests followed. Over the weekend in Arizona, demonstrators blocked a road leading to a rally, and another protester was punched while being ejected from a Trump event.
It’s unclear whether any left-leaning activists will be able to breach security to protest inside the Republican National Convention, but Trump has said his supporters might r**t in Cleveland if establishment Republicans persuade GOP delegates to nominate a different candidate.
But protesters may be more worried about the people in charge of controlling the crowd. Much of the security outside the convention, which will include police from multiple agencies, will fall under the authority of the Cleveland Police Department, which faces federal scrutiny for its repeated use of “unreasonable and unnecessary force,” in the words of a 2014 Justice Department investigation.
In one incident on Nov. 29, 2012, Cleveland police officers fired 137 shots at the car of an unarmed black couple, Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, k*****g them. More than 100 officers had set off after the couple in a high-speed chase after their car backfired and police mistook the sound for gunshots.
Demonstrators took to the streets in May 2015 when a judge acquitted Officer Michael Brelo, who was charged with manslaughter for jumping onto the hood of the car and firing 15 shots through the windshield at Russell and Williams. The ACLU later sued when Cleveland police trapped dozens of protesters in an alleyway and arrested them on suspicion of failing to disperse — though a dispersal order was not given loudly and there was no way to leave. The city settled the lawsuit, agreeing to implement clearer crowd dispersal and mass arrest policies, which are likely to be put to the test at the convention.
Cleveland civil liberties advocates are also concerned about the $50-million federal grant given to the city for convention security. The city has requested bids to purchase 2,000 sets of police r**t gear, plus several sets of ballistic protection gear, steel barriers and improvements to its surveillance systems.
“We’re worried about the militarization of the Cleveland Police Department,” said Freda Levenson, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Ohio chapter.
“The consent decree is based on a history in which our Police Department has shown an inability to police with conventional police equipment in ordinary day-to-day situations, and now they’re going to be given all this new shiny technology and weapons,” Levenson said. “We’re concerned about their training and their ability to use this [equipment], especially in this larger and challenging context.”
Mayor Frank Jackson — a Democrat who pushed for the convention to be held in Cleveland — declined to comment on security measures being taken. “As a community, however, we look forward to showcasing our great city and to providing a safe environment for all those who live, work and are visiting our city,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.
Left-wing activists have been preparing for the convention since it was announced in July 2014. On Saturday, dozens of attorneys, civil liberties advocates and potential protesters from across the Midwest came to Cleveland for a conference hosted by the National Lawyers Guild. Black L***s M****r activists, c*******ts and Catholic workers were all in attendance, and on the lookout for spies.
Signs plastered across the Case Western Reserve University School of Law warned attendees that Republican National Convention committee staff, city officials, undercover police and informants might be at the public sessions. The secret counter-intelligence program known as COINTELPRO was referenced more than once as a cautionary tale.
“Is anybody here from the RNC committee?” a Michigan attorney, Julie H. Hurwitz, called out to a room full of listeners in the law school’s mock-trial room, where she was discussing how to defend activists in mass arrest cases. The crowd laughed nervously. “Fine, don’t raise your hands.”
Walter S. Nicholas, 91, introduced himself at the gathering as a World War II veteran who hoped to use his writing to shape public opinion and send the message that “activism is not terrorism.”
David Witt, a former Ferguson, Mo., resident and activist for Copwatch, which films police officers, was visiting the conference from St. Louis. “I know a few people who want to be active in this RNC thing that’s coming up,” he said, and he mentioned that he might help with filming.
Some already had plans set. Larry Bresler, director of the activist group Organize! Ohio, said an anti-poverty demonstration is scheduled for July 18, the first day of the convention — and the 50th anniversary of the start of race r**ts in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood.
“There’s a complete ignoring of the problems of poverty and the structural issues of poverty” in p**********l e******ns, said Bresler, who also protested the Republican conventions in 2004 and 2008.
Cleveland resident Alana Belle said she was a relative newcomer to activism; she got involved with protesting only after a grand jury decided in December not to indict the officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who had been playing with a toy gun in a park.
She said she was still figuring out what kind of role she wanted to have for the convention, though she was inspired when she saw activists break up the Trump rally in Chicago on March 11. “I was excited. I was jumping for joy. I thought it was beautiful,” she said. “They did the damn thing.
“I’m hoping to learn a lot from them, to sort of bring that energy, those strategizing sk**ls, that sort of fun stuff to Cleveland,” Belle said. matt.pearce@latimes.com   Twitter: @MattDPearce

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

I Think They Could As Well Hold It In
Detroit
Chicago
Atlanta
Baltimore
Or D.C. Itself

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

:lol: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

That's right Kunta.

There will be fireworks and of course the clowns will be provided by Black L***s M****r.

They've got extra clown costumes for you Kunta.

You can carry a sign that says...............

"Poor Dumb SPOOK L***s M****r Also"

Progressive One

blah blah spook spook, go suck on a big one.

pftspd

Wolf Counselor: You, wh**ever you are BESIDES a total bimbo STUPID dumb ass.. your ass needs to be taken out behind the barn. If you would consider refraining from anal sex, seek professional help with your f*g issues, and your Psychosis (for you definitely ARE a Psychotic), then not only would YOU, but the world would be better off. You are a sick puppy, and this I wager if all because of the tramp mother than you had who most definitely DID NOT have a baby when you came into the world, but a "MONSTER". You are SICK. Very sick. Try sucking on a lollipop instead of those meaty poles you are stuffing down your filthy throat. You are d********g.

pftspd

Incidentally, I am a Negro. And, a smart n****r at that. You whities suck. You think you are smarter, but our MAN, Obama dances circles around all of your c*****rs. Michelle? So what if she is a t**********e. She is beautiful as a woman, far more beautiful than any c*****r. You are just bigot, a full blown r****t, and our united movement with out wonderful B*M, united as we are, with this we are conquering your c*****r whities. We will take over this country, as sorry as it is under c*****r control, and we will prevail in having all that we want for ourselves, for a change. You will, all your c*****rs, pay dearly for what you have tried to do for us. WE built this country, lock, stock, and barrel. C*****rs kept us, my people, in s***ery for a long time, and now.. NOW, at last, we have the power and the upper hand. Our Knight, Pres. Obama, is fixing this c*****r land now with his united U.S. and Cuba, just as he has fixed stuff by his brilliant link up with Iran. You need to take cover, C*****rs, for we are now in charge.

pftspd

TO KARPENTER: Us b****s need to have the GOP losers have their convention in Chicago where we rule. Our Mayor and we, the people of color, we will finish all of you off with our machine and what we do best. yes.. that is right. You c*****rs will pay for what you have done to us. We are not, thanks to our King Obama, and his brilliant hook up with Iran and now Cuba.. combined with our men who are ruling the whole ICBM nuke arsenal, (bored so much that we must do our choice meds, Meth and crack, and all our other good things while on duty), we are in charge now and your C*****rs are gonna be under our thumb. Get used to it whitie.

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

You're one ignorant spook.

You negroes wouldn't last two seconds in a fiefight with whitefolks.

And you Chicago spooks are the world's most i***tic negroids.

You boys need to put down the dope and pick up a shovel and start rebuilding that squalid excuse for a city.

You need to kick that PUNK mayor of yours out and hire a Texas red neck to show you spooks how to run things.

That or stay broke, stupid and angry.

You insufferable .......................SPOOK !!!

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

My how your color gas changed...and not for the better wonk, you are in charge of nothing!........i say bring what you got, but be prepared wonk.....whitey does not play nice, best you remember that.


.Main -> Can't Wait To See The Show (go to message) Mar 23, 16 07:48:43
TO KARPENTER: Us b****s need to have the GOP losers have their convention in Chicago where we rule. Our Mayor and we, the people of color, we will finish all of you off with our machine and what we do best. yes.. that is right. You c*****rs will pay for what you have done to us. We are not, thanks to our King Obama, and his brilliant hook up with Iran and now Cuba.. combined with our men who are ruling the whole ICBM nuke arsenal, (bored so much that we must do our choice meds, Meth and crack, and all our other good things while on duty), we are in charge now and your C*****rs are gonna be under our thumb. Get used to it whitie.
Main -> Can't Wait To See The Show (go to message) Mar 23, 16 07:42:56
Incidentally, I am a Negro. And, a smart n****r at that. You whities suck. You think you are smarter, but our MAN, Obama dances circles around all of your c*****rs. Michelle? So what if she is a t**********e. She is beautiful as a woman, far more beautiful than any c*****r. You are just bigot, a full blown r****t, and our united movement with out wonderful B*M, united as we are, with this we are conquering your c*****r whities. We will take over this country, as sorry as it is under c*****r control, and we will prevail in having all that we want for ourselves, for a change. You will, all your c*****rs, pay dearly for what you have tried to do for us. WE built this country, lock, stock, and barrel. C*****rs kept us, my people, in s***ery for a long time, and now.. NOW, at last, we have the power and the upper hand. Our Knight, Pres. Obama, is fixing this c*****r land now with his united U.S. and Cuba, just as he has fixed stuff by his brilliant link up with Iran. You need to take cover, C*****rs, for we are now in charge.
Main -> Can't Wait To See The Show (go to message) Mar 23, 16 07:33:38
Wolf Counselor: You, wh**ever you are BESIDES a total bimbo STUPID dumb ass.. your ass needs to be taken out behind the barn. If you would consider refraining from anal sex, seek professional help with your f*g issues, and your Psychosis (for you definitely ARE a Psychotic), then not only would YOU, but the world would be better off. You are a sick puppy, and this I wager if all because of the tramp mother than you had who most definitely DID NOT have a baby when you came into the world, but a "MONSTER". You are SICK. Very sick. Try sucking on a lollipop instead of those meaty poles you are stuffing down your filthy throat. You are d********g.
Main -> Obama Lifts Ban On Diseased Refugees...Here's Who He's Dumping Into Your Town... (go to message) Feb 28, 16 05:46:46
I read these comments with an intensity of interest rarely felt. The comments are brilliant. Indeed. As I see it, and in talking with many democrat v**ers recently, one of the biggest problems with the U.S. is not enough serious disease, and disease that has not been isolated by the CDC, and is not only life threatening, but leaves the victim terribly disabled. The consensus of opinion that I was provided by the democrats that I sought for advice and counsel, is just this.. not enough disease to worry about, regardless of the seriousness of the disease. I confess that from my reading of the Koran does not contradict this thought, this "reasoning". Many with whom I spoke expressed an increased desire for more sexually t***smitted disease. I will continue my outreach in the coming weeks and report back here to provide the sagacity, the wisdom, that I am provided by the democrats. All of those with whom I spoke were avid Hillary Clinton supporters, and they expressed their determination to elect Ms. Clinton as their President. I will continue my efforts to learn more and to become better informed. I go now. I hope everyone here has a just perfect day! So long now.
Main -> Obama Lifts Ban On Diseased Refugees...Here's Who He's Dumping Into Your Town... (go to message) Feb 28, 16 05:46:23
I read these comments with an intensity of interest rarely felt. The comments are brilliant. Indeed. As I see it, and in talking with many democrat v**ers recently, one of the biggest problems with the U.S. is not enough serious disease, and disease that has not been isolated by the CDC, and is not only life threatening, but leaves the victim terribly disabled. The consensus of opinion that I was provided by the democrats that I sought for advice and counsel, is just this.. not enough disease to worry about, regardless of the seriousness of the disease. I confess that from my reading of the Koran does not contradict this thought, this "reasoning". Many with whom I spoke expressed an increased desire for more sexually t***smitted disease. I will continue my outreach in the coming weeks and report back here to provide the sagacity, the wisdom, that I am provided by the democrats. All of those with whom I spoke were avid Hillary Clinton supporters, and they expressed their determination to elect Ms. Clinton as their President. I will continue my efforts to learn more and to become better informed. I go now. I hope everyone here has a just perfect day! So long now.
Main -> Obama Lifts Ban On Diseased Refugees...Here's Who He's Dumping Into Your Town... (go to message) Feb 28, 16 05:42:22
I read these comments with an intensity of interest rarely felt. The comments are brilliant. Indeed. As I see it, and in talking with many democrat v**ers recently, one of the biggest problems with the U.S. is not enough serious disease, and disease that has not been isolated by the CDC, and is not only life threatening, but leaves the victim terribly disabled. The consensus of opinion that I was provided by the democrats that I sought for advice and counsel, is just this.. not enough disease to worry about, regardless of the seriousness of the disease. I confess that from my reading of the Koran does not contradict this thought, this "reasoning". Many with whom I spoke expressed an increased desire for more sexually t***smitted disease. I will continue my outreach in the coming weeks and report back here to provide the sagacity, the wisdom, that I am provided by the democrats. All of those with whom I spoke were avid Hillary Clinton supporters, and they expressed their determination to elect Ms. Clinton as their President. I will continue my efforts to learn more and to become better informed. I go now. I hope everyone here has a just perfect day! So long now.
Main -> A Question For You Trump Supporters (go to message) Jan 30, 16 05:22:00
JMHO..I have been reading your many comments here for awhile now.. and.. MOST all I am in agreement with.. So.. let's just take a closer "look" at what we have now in our country.. First, MY opinion, I am in fear...very sincerely, that we are on a precipice, right before something catastrophic. I sense, strongly, that there are more and more of our own who are so ignorant, stupid, that they are ready and willing to line up with those who WOULD destroy our country. To the two parties.. Fed. level..demos and repubs.. there is NOT ONE PARTICLE of difference in the two.. THEY ARE ALL on the same sheet of music and this is what we have.. a huge crowd of D.C. insiders, and we have NO representation wh**ever. None. We are, in fact, just the victims.. The meal ticket for the lairs, c***ts, crooks, and worse.. Meantime, they a perpetuated in office(s) by what I am now convinced are just plain STUPID Americans.. STUPID is the word. Many, perhaps MOST, do not even know who the hey their elected "representative" (a joke unto itself) are!! I, sad to say, see a coming, eventual, maybe inevitable, revolution. And I do not mean an ideological revolution, but an armed one. And, JMHO. this is about as sad as it gets. I am a Veteran. I come from generations of former military men. What I see, perceive, for our future, is DARK.
Main -> Saul Alinsky! The Humanitarian! (go to message) Jan 27, 16 07:30:35
Ladies and Gentlemen, Please alert everyone you know that an announcement of fact and t***h will be found here within 8-12 hours. This FACT SHEET will provide a total and complete HISTORY of Cool Breeze, and I assure you that ALL AND EVERYONE who sees this will be astounded. You are about to get something that NEVER, EVER happens on this site.. EXPOSURE of a seriously dangerous human being; this Cool Breeze. I have a compendium of information, all provided with dates, times, people, and places. Following this, it is highly likely that Cool Breeze will NOT be seen on this site again. Stand by. YOU will be astonished, and SHOCKED.
Main -> Saul Alinsky! The Humanitarian! (go to message) Jan 27, 16 06:51:36
btw..Cool aid.. YOU have NO idea who I am. I have known you for decades. I knew your family.. You were sick then, you are sick now.. and everyone who knew you KNEW that you were a cockroach, a filthy, nasty, diseased, crawling in dark places, COCKROACH. Again, you just need to be squished.
Main -> Saul Alinsky! The Humanitarian! (go to message) Jan 27, 16 06:47:28
Thank you for identifying the loathing h**e.. you DID get that right. Yes. I literally despise, h**e, everything you stand for, everything you are. You are a living disease, a deadly v***s, a very sick, criminally guided cock roach. You are a bono fide Demon.
Main -> Saul Alinsky! The Humanitarian! (go to message) Jan 27, 16 06:43:48
Of course.. understood. Clinical Sociopaths, Psychotics, ~~like YOU~ cannot understand, comprehend, balanced and fair appraisals of human interaction and interface. You only understand what is sick, twisted, crippled, perverted. You mother did this to you. Were it that you were just ill I would feel compassion; but. nay, you are demonic, evil, possessed by the black heart of a criminal. You mother did this to you.
Main -> Saul Alinsky! The Humanitarian! (go to message) Jan 27, 16 05:58:32
Cool Breeze.. BLOW away you worthless sub-human slime-snail.. You need to be squished underfoot, under boot, and washed down the gutter. You are the product of your mother, a worthless trollop, a narcotic addict, a father who was forced to abandon the wench he accidentally knocked up, and from which you crawled out. You are a sick, twisted, crippled, perverted I***T.. you are sick.. mentally deranged. I pray to God you have not produced offspring. You'd fit nicely in a chair, one of those with high voltage wires hooked to it. Maybe a car crash will occur and you will be made to vanish.. to join the rest of those your emulate who are burning in the fires of Satanic Hell. That would be a good thing.
Main -> you owe the President and the Democrat Party an apology. (go to message) Jan 25, 16 06:56:29
YOUR PITIFUL COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SAYS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU.. particularly your abject ignorance. You are not just ignorance, as to say, uninformed, uneducated.. you, whoever the hell you are.. YOU ARE STUPID. Your mother and your father did this to you. We are all a product of two things; background and breeding. You background is an environment, a home life, of pitifully poor education. Your breeding indicates that your mother was Stupid, and your father was apparently an ignorant and pitifully weak dick brain. YOU are STUPID.. and.. dangerous. The world would be safer and better off if you were dead, t***h be told. Stupid as you are maybe you will drive in front of a tractor trailer truck soon and your stupid ass head will be decapitated. What a truly STUPID waste of life you are. STUPID.. You are efking STUPID..
Main -> Obama will be remembered in history for his accomplishmentsts (go to message) Jan 10, 16 08:07:31
This is, if not the biggest, then certainly one of the very, very few grouping or words that are virtual equine or bovine defecation I have ever read. Of all and everything that is most ruinous to our way of life, our FREEDOM, it is this level of STUPID that will, and HAS under this current Administration, be MOST damaging. Obama is a moron. Obama is surrounded by morons. Woven into this level of stupidity is a force of hatred, r****t, bigoted hatred that is unseen outside of, or absent things like the KKK, or Black Panthers, and such as this. Our nation very likely will not survive the damages that have been done. The U.S. will gradually sink to still new lows and sooner than later become a "used to be". The root of this issue is with the people, NOT all.. but a majority. Saddest of all is that this is and has been led by the white women; miserable, ignorant, clinical sociopaths. I am done. I am bailing out of this sinking ship. I just cannot withstand the pressures of an existence without committment, and this is what we now have. The women. Worthless, ignorant, dishonest to he core, and STUPID.
Main -> The death of gratitude (go to message) Dec 30, 15 05:37:20
to MOM8052..

Thank you!!

C Wilson
Marietta, GA
former 7 yr. resident
Santa Fe

Progressive One

I'm sure that you will only hide behind your keyboard like the p-ssy you are and talk this bullsh-t. You should have attended the integrated schools I did growing up. You would have been getting your punk a-- kicked by both white and black kids.

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

Look Spooker,

Your case of diarrhea at the mouth is also conducted from behind your keyboard.

And I don't maintain any need or desire to hurt, harm, assault or even touch a Spook like you.

I just sit back and watch while you spooks k**l yourselves.

Another Spook, will most likely be your demise.....................................KUNTA !!

Progressive One

Nothing like a poor, marginal, pink trailer trash r****t. Go ahead and k**l your damn self and do the world a service. White people do not k**l each other, I remember.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

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PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

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