Posted on 07/09/2016 10:21:54 AM PDT by Kudsman
Police arrested 74 people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Rochester, New York, on Friday amid nationwide protests against police shootings of black citizens.
The Rochester demonstration was one of many held in the wake of deadly police shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and came after the sniper attack that killed five police officers in Dallas.
Texas Leaders Anxious to Begin Healing Process Officials said they had made attempts to communicate with organizers and thought the protest was ending before the arrests were made.
"We actually started demobilizing officers and ... arranging for some officers to be in the area just to keep an eye on things," Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli said at a press briefing early Saturday.
Officers donned riot gear "later on" and at one point the crowd began to surround them and rocks were thrown, he said.
"At this point ... there were 74 arrests for disorderly conduct. There were also two charges for resisting arrest," he said. The crowd numbered more than 400 people, he said.
At the same briefing, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said the situation had "escalated a little bit" but police did not have to use use any pepper spray, batons or "deploy any weapons, any tasers."
Instagrammer Records Protesters' Standoff With Police in Rochester Two journalists were also mistakenly arrested.
"I apologize for that. They were there trying to do their job to cover this event," Ciminelli added. Warren also apologized to the journalists.
Nobody was injured during the night, Ciminelli said without going into very much detail about the circumstances around the detentions.
The "74 arrests made it's difficult for us to break down each individual one," he added.
In spite of the number of detentions, Ciminelli said the department "didn't blindly make arrests."
Earlier, Ciminelli said he would have preferred not to have the rally in the city on Friday, a day after the Dallas massacre. However, he said, if people wanted to gather and voice their concerns, "we will protect them in doing so."
Other protests around the country shut down traffic at times but were reportedly peaceful:
There’s so much double-speak in this article, I don’t know what’s going on.
“Wut?” :-[
“D’OH!” :-0
Yep, the SJW in suits will “ask” the prosecutor to engage in some “prosecutorial discretion”.
Or their careers are over at a minimum...
You might lose. I just got out of work in time to watch a bunch of white millennials get dragged off along with Holders’ people. As I asked myself didn’t I just see the same crowd on TV rioting at the Chili Avenue Wal-Mart last week?
One does not know until one tries!
Yuk, yuk - good one!
This is how they view it. The conversation is about Black Lives. “It’s all about MEEE” right now. For goodness sakes! But, they don’t want to hear everyone is equal because the conversation is about them. It’s becoming Ridiculous as they are working themselves into more than a frenzy.
my friend who is ex DPD who’s son is a current DPD officer, told me they were told not to armor up.
PC cost 5 lives.
Thank you Obama!
That’s soooo wrong!
I wouldn’t take that bet. If you have a felony conviction you are ineligible for welfare. That would knock a huge chunk off the programs. I would say misdemeanor but that would finish the rest off.
“We actually started demobilizing officers and ... arranging for some officers to be in the area just to keep an eye on things,” Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli said at a press briefing early Saturday.”
Are they in Texas or Rochester? Who writes these articles
I checked: as I suspected, "Texas Leaders Anxious to Begin Healing Process" is a link to another article. Sometimes people paste excerpts here without removing content like links or image captions.
Thank you.
Give them a whiff of grapeshot.
Yes, I agree, and it was a crime to tell them _not_ to wear it. We give law enforcement the body armor to protect themselves while on duty. Then someone who’ll never be with them on the ground tells them to leave it in the locker over something as goofy as perception. Criminal.
“...Texas Leaders Anxious to Begin Healing Process ...”
There is no healing now. They’re murdering our people.
I sense that will happen as summer goes on, that more likely you will see not only the larger use of the police SWAT teams, but the NG being called up more likely.
Look for more TX folks who do CCW to be super prepared.
Not in states with Democrat governors.
Or spineless Republican governors.
I had said it was about TX, which if I am not mistaken, has a good GOP governor.
Safe to say, they will have NO CHOICE but to do so if they do not want to be seen as weak leaders.
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