Additionally, he offered condolences to the family and friends of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed Saturday when Ohio man James Alex Fields Jr. drove into a crowd of counter-protesters.
Full statement here.
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”Now is not the time to be silent. We cannot and will not accept these acts of domestic terrorism based on a bigoted mindset of white supremacy. We in Cleveland will continue to be welcoming to all people.
My deepest condolences to the family and friends of Heather Heyer as well as to the families and friends of Virginia State Police Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, and Trooper Berke M. M. Bates, as well as to all who were injured.
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”Now is not the time to be silent. We cannot and will not accept these acts of domestic terrorism based on a bigoted mindset of white supremacy. We in Cleveland will continue to be welcoming to all people.
My deepest condolences to the family and friends of Heather Heyer as well as to the families and friends of Virginia State Police Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, and Trooper Berke M. M. Bates, as well as to all who were injured.
This article appears in Aug 9-15, 2017.
The Los Angeles Times has on online story from August 1999 that could provide mayors and governors direction in handling the right to protest and the new Silver Legion of America — the headline is a link — “Cleveland Cordons Off Klan Rally Demonstration: About 40 KKK members, surrounded by hundreds of police, shout slogans. Decision to allow event drew political heat.”