The Latest in Cleveland: Ohio governor praises protests

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

11:30 a.m.

Gov. John Kasich has praised the mostly peaceful protests following the acquittal of a white patrolman charged in the deaths of two unarmed black motorists in a barrage of police gunfire.

Kasich said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that people in Cleveland should be proud and that their response should serve as a model for the nation.

Kasich said "the verdict is the verdict" when asked whether patrolman Michael Brelo's acquittal on voluntary manslaughter charges was just.

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Protesters are escorted to a bus for transport after getting arrested after protesting the acquittal of Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo Saturday, May 23, 2015, in Cleveland. The acquittal came at a time of nationwide tension among police and black citizens punctuated by protests over the deaths of black suspects at the hands of white officers — and following a determination by the U.S. Department of Justice that Cleveland police had a history of using excessive force and violating civil rights. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)


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[Romeo.lima333]

1. the 1% likes peaceful, it doesnt ruin their stuff and peaceful can be ignored

not promoting violence. it's just an observation

[cstanleytech]

3. Actually I suspect the 1% dont care, they have enough money that they can rebuild its the rest of us

who suffer when people do things like riot and burn down buildings because then alot of us end up without a job and we dont have the money to survive it especially if we are living pay check to pay check.

[heaven05]

11. BS

black people behaving as you would have them behave, like many others on here, is not a sign that things are getting better. The authorities do not respect weak. They laugh at these 'protestors'. Especially the privileged citizenry.

[cstanleytech]

2. So would you all agree with the governor? Have they behaved better than the Baltimore protesters?

[graegoyle]

4. Insufficient evidence to determine if they were protesters or "agents".

[cstanleytech]

8. Conspiracy theories like that tend to give me a headache.

[NaturalHigh]

7. So far, yes.

[question everything]

5. Foreign affaris experience?

I came to the end of the interview where he said that he is the only candidate - or candidate wannabe - who has both the executive experience of a governor and a foreign affairs experience, or knowledge. And I wonder how.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. He hangs out in the Polish district?

[cstanleytech]

9. Palin probably actually has more experience, after all she can see Russia from her house.

[libdem4life]

10. Yes, good little black boys and girls...and a few errant whites. Thank you for sharing.

Now go home and watch television.

[heaven05]

12. always makes white people happy

to not see retribution for murders of POC by one of the white agents of whatever authority. That they deems the execution(s) proper and just of any given murder of an unarmed POC is the continuing disrespect of black life that is extremely galling. Black anger is the only thing that starts change toward a more equal justice and execution system. Period. The authorities have the guns, we have anger that been around for 150 years and many in white society because of that black anger have their fear(s) of losing it's privilege and/or 'stuff' by speaking up. That's one main reason there has been no 'real' movement toward a more equal and inclusive society.

I just don't understand how the election of a POC as POTUS could create this type of 'authorized' racial violence and murder against POC and the vicious white citizen backlash. Oh never mind, yes I can. It's been around as long as "mom and apple pie".