Without appropriate warning, police began launching these grenades while also shooting pepper spray, flashbang grenades, wooden bullets and pepper balls into a crowd of demonstrators at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center Saturday afternoon.
Cory Shaffer, at cleveland.com, published a story Wednesday morning with testimony from legal observers that correspond with our in-person observations: To the extent police gave dispersal orders before the use of munitions, they were largely, (if not entirely), unheard.
Police claim they ordered the crowd to disperse, but they did so in ways that the crowd of several thousand people could not possibly have registered.
“Video recorded by cleveland.com shows an incident commander reading what appears to be a dispersal order into a bullhorn as she approached the crowd with officers in riot gear in tow,” Shaffer wrote. “The commander was around a corner and behind the crowd that was chanting loudly in the opposite direction, the video showed. The commander’s order could barely be heard over the crowd and the constant honking of car horns in the video.”
An attendee snapped a photo of a discharged Spede-Heate canister and sent it to Scene. These canisters were launched deep into the crowd of peaceful protesters on Lakeside Avenue and into the park across from the Justice Center. They were launched both from the steps of the Justice Center and from the roof of the building.
The discharge of the yellow-greenish gas created a frenzied atmosphere that exacerbated tension and hostility between protesters and the police. In some cases, protesters successfully doused the canisters with water and covered them with five-gallon buckets or traffic cones to prevent the discharge of the chemicals.
Via the Spede-Heat first aid fact sheet , the active chemical agent causes “major discomfort” for 10 to 20 minutes to those exposed. (“If major discomfort persists,” the manufacturer warns, “contact EMS.”) Burning sensation in the eyes, nose and skin, heavy flow of tears, nasal discharge, blisters in extreme cases, coughing, the sensation of shortness of breath, tightness in the chest and feelings of panic are all intended effects.
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This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2020.
So what is the purpose of this article? Is it to inform violent protesters what kind of chemical agent that authorities will use to get them to disperse?
They should save themselves and the authorities the bother and just disperse, because they are going to end up dispersing anyway.
Protesters have already made their point, and it takes time for the criminal process to unfold.
Whether protesters like it or not, the indicted police officers have a fundamental constitutional right to due process of law, which means that it is going to be a while before the outcome of the criminal trials are decided.
I have some pics of the baseball bats and crowbars that antifa brought downtown to smash the windows of local businesses.
you guys, look at the thing they threw at us while we were lighting the justice center on fire and ravaging the surrounding businesses and monuments. How dare they!
Who’s disgusting WHITE hand is that in the picture? Anntifa people are all so ugly.
the person in the picture is clearly antifa, dressed in black bloc attire, there with intent to riot.
If you’re against Antifa, you’re pro-fascist.
All this does is encourage peaceful protesters that peace is not an option.
“Cleveland Police Used These Launchable Chemical Grenades at Saturday Protest “
Lets be real honest and clean that up:
Cleveland Police Used These Launchable Chemical Grenades at Saturday ‘Riot’.
Had it just been a protest, the would not have had to use anything.
“If you’re against Antifa, you’re pro-fascist.”
Uh that could be the stupidest comment I’ve heard in months.
LOL at these idiot millennials and gen z running around calling everything fascist and nazi. They dont have a clue what they are babbling about.
There is an antifa terrorist in the comments here threatening more violence and destruction because “this”.
Get the eff out of our city antifa! We’re not racist. You’re a communist using race to justify your disgusting commy revolution attempt.
Yeah, there was this fat cop whose flak jacket couldn’t cover his ample belly firing those guys into the peaceful crowd at random. At the start of it all, there were less than a dozen knuckleheads pounding on the justice center doors. After “Tear Gas Cop” started busting caps into the crowd, the number of pissed off people jumped by a 1,000% and suddenly about 50 people were attacking the building. No order to disperse was heard. No sign of the mayor, the chief, or any member of city council.
And incidentally, if there is a 20mph breeze blowing straight down Lakeside Avenue, all you need to do is stay upwind of the tear gas bomb, pick it up, and throw it back. The crowd figured out that almost immediately.
This was a Chemical Weapon Campaign used with deadly Nerve agent
The allegedly Mustard Gas attack was used on peaceful protesters……….
mostly women and children, were attack with the nerve agent deadly gases………..
Thank you Scene newspapers. for the Footage shown worldwide ……….
caucasold, if deadly nerve agent and mustard gas were used, why aren’t there any nerve agent and mustard gas casualties? Protesters should be glad that Cleveland police didn’t use wooden bullets, like Columbus police did. Protesters can recover from tear gas and pepper mace in a half hour or so. Wooden bullets can leave large bruises that can take over 10 days to heal.
“This was a Chemical Weapon Campaign used with deadly Nerve agent
The allegedly Mustard Gas attack was used on peaceful protesters……….
mostly women and children, were attack with the nerve agent deadly gases………..
Thank you Scene newspapers. for the Footage shown worldwide ……….”
I’m going to ask that you stop hitting the crack pipe before you post at 3 in the morning.
Fabrications and fantasies. Thanks for this am’s laugh.
Sam Allard might be the most dangerous idiot in town. The guy and his antifa buddies attack the justice center, light it on fire. The poluce respond with non lethal crowd dispersal tools shown here and Allard is using that to justify him and the other antifa units destroying the city so the black youth would then loot.
How much deadly corona virus bacteria was being spewed about by the unmasked protesters?
White liberals with their white guilt at Scene not only scramble to sit in the back of the bus, but they crawl there on their knees, apologizing as they go. We let the Marxists reconfigure our culture to accommodate the one racial group that cannot or will not function in American society, let alone flourish, and in return this is how we’re treated.
sausage fingers in the pic
The Twitter account they use as a source here (@thresholdevent) has no posts before June 1, 2020. The account just showed up and then started posting about the riot then retweeting Sam Allards tweets.
Sam crying about tear gas.
Well, maybe not the usual course but the end result is nice.
Sam, you a Puffs or Kleenex guy? Post your address, I’ll send you a box of which ever you like.
Well, so much for yet another Scene myth….
Seems there was a ‘non-violent’ protester swinging a baseball bat around at the doors of the justice center. (Fox 8 has the video)
Sam and Vince, a little advise – try, I mean really try to get some factual information before you write stories. Because you look really stupid when there is video evidence contradicting your fantasies a day later.