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Title: Cleveland seeking to buy riot gear for Republican National Convention
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Cleveland.com
URL Source: http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/i ... eland_seeking_to_buy_riot.html
Published: Mar 7, 2016
Author: Andrew J. Tobias
Post Date: 2016-03-07 17:30:52 by Hondo68
Keywords: Brokered Convention, Jeb Romney, Marco Crisco
Views: 627
Comments: 4
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland is seeking to buy 2,000 sets of riot gear, including riot-control suits and collapsible batons, as part of the city's latest move to spend a $50 million federal security grant for July's Republican National Convention. The city this week posted to its contracting website a notice seeking bidders to provide the gear. City documents refer to the "Elite Defender" riot-control suit manufactured by HWI Gear and a 26-inch baton manufactured by Monadnock, plus 2,000 bags to carry them. The city also wants to buy 310 sets of riot-control gear — long-sleeve jackets, gloves and shin guards — that would be suitable for use by police riding bicycles. (Scroll to the bottom of this post to read the complete specifications for the riot gear.) The city last week began ramping up its public process to spend the RNC security money, approved by Congress last December. The city previously has sought to buy 300 bicycles, 15 motorcycles, 25 sets of tactical armor and two horse trailers. The city also has sought to rent about three miles of interlocking steel barriers, each 3.5 feet high, and buy another 3,250 feet of interlocking barriers that each would be 6.5 feet tall for the RNC, according to bid documents. In a brief interview on Thursday, city spokesman Dan Williams referred to at least some of these barriers as "bike racks," although manufacturer Tamis Corp. markets the barriers, branded as "Blockaders," as crowd-control devices. The convention, scheduled for the week of July 18, is expected to attract 50,000 visitors to Cleveland. As part of its security plan, Cleveland is organizing a police force of 5,000 officers — the city is in the process of recruiting officers from surrounding suburbs and elsewhere to bolster its existing force of about 1,200. Previous conventions also have attracted political demonstrators, ranging from more than 100,000 for the 2004 RNC in New York City to less than 1,000 for the 2012 RNC in Tampa, Florida. Because the RNC has been designated as a National Special Security Event, it is eligible to receive federal funding. Cleveland is planning convention security under the direction of the Secret Service. City officials largely are not commenting on their convention-planning efforts. However, Mayor Frank Jackson's administration told City Council last month that the city plans to spend roughly $30 million of the federal grant on personnel, and $20 million on equipment. The delivery deadline for the equipment is June 15, Councilman Brian Cummins wrote on his blog last month. Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley recently told cleveland.com that council hopes to hold a public security briefing with federal officials sometime in March or April. The officials though, would need to receive clearance first to do so, he said. Poster Comment: They'll need to crack quite a few heads to get Willie-Mitt nominated a second time. Could be like the '68 Democrat Convention in Chicago. 
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
A vote for Trump (or Rubio, Cruz, Clinton, Sanders) is a vote of approval for the police state.
In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Arnold Schwarzenegger has just endorsed Kasich and called him an "action hero". www.cbsnews.com/news/schw...hn-kasich-to-action-hero/ IMO he'd be a police state tyrant too. Bringing the goobernator in is a good start towards out-clowning Trump. Just before the riots start, as Ahnold is boarding his plane, he will tell Kasich " Come with me if you want to live "
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
oh give it up, you're starting to look silly.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#2. To: Deckard, please give up (#1)
A vote for Trump (or Rubio, Cruz, Clinton, Sanders) is a vote of approval
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: Deckard (#1)
#4. To: Deckard (#1)
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