Cleveland weighs in security concerns as Republican Convention begins

July 18, 2016 08:25

Cleveland police chief asks Ohio Guv to impose state of emergency for the Republican National Convention where after nearly a year of debate, five months of primaries, 17 candidates, and much sniping, the Republicans will finally nominate Donald Trump and Mike Pence as the party's presidential and vice presidential nominees.

A string of shootings targeting police officers, as well as the recent killings of two black men by police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana, had already pushed gun violence and social unrest to the center of the presidential campaign.

Within hours of the killings on Sunday, in which three law enforcement officers were fatally shot and several others were wounded, Trump declared that the nation had become a "divided crime scene" and said that the Islamic State was watching as Americans murdered police officers. After President Obama issued a call for calm, Trump jabbed on Twitter that Obama "doesn't have a clue."

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