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Cleveland’s after-action report of May 30 protest, riots fails to ask: was there another way? Updated Dec 12, 2020; Posted Dec 12, 2020 A protester throws tear gas back towards the Cleveland police at the Justice Center during a rally, May 30, 2020, for justice in the death of George Floyd.John Kuntz, cleveland.com Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio – Josiah Quarles can pinpoint what he believed was the turning point when the May 30 protests in downtown Cleveland went south. He arrived at the rally as Cleveland police and Cuyahoga County sheriff’s deputies began launching exploding muniti...

Around the country, is this black spring movement of people taking to the streets. and pushing for structural reforms. >> you said black spring. now that we have this in baltimore and we had ferguson, trayvon martin as well. is this the first time you're using that term, black spring? >> this is a term that we are using. to talk about this new movement, this new movement of everyday people who are coming out and turning out. we have deep cultural presence on this issue now. people care about it in ways they haven't. but that doesn't mean we're going to get the policy changes, the type of chang...

Block enough to know that we have seen these supposed changes come about before. we had the black spring in cuba where they jailed 75 dissidents and when the world wasn't looking they went back to jailing some more. more things change. nothing changes in cuba and you know that and these changes only appease the castro dictatorship. they don't help the human rights activists with whom i talked to all day today and they are saddened that this has happened because they say all of our sacrifices have been for not. >> clearly, you disagree with pope prancis who played a critical role who played an ...