Opening Day Outside the RNC in Cleveland
Home of the Brave
Scott Carrier
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Sean Whitty and Christopher Traviano.
I went to the Republican and Democratic conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia to see who showed up outside on the streets. This is the first in a short series of reports.
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Sean Whitty's back tattoo.
A quote by Sam Adams on Sean's arm.
The Public Square in downtown Cleveland, where some of the protests took place.
Two anti-Trump protesters in Public Square.
David Patterson speaking just before Kathy Wray Coleman is arrested.
The Cleveland Police handcuff Kathy Wray Coleman.
Taking her away.
Kathy Wray Coleman was arrested on outstanding warrants for assaulting Cleveland Police officers.
The Rev. Pamela M. Pickney Butts scolding the crowd after Coleman's arrest.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Home of the Brave, I'm Scott Carrier. |
| 0:07.0 | I went to the conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia because I wanted to see who'd show up outside on the streets to protest or demonstrate. |
| 0:16.0 | The city of Cleveland was prepared for an invasion of 50,000 protesters, |
| 0:21.0 | Philadelphia for 200,000. |
| 0:24.5 | But it turned out not many protesters showed up. |
| 0:28.0 | Only about 1,000 in Cleveland, |
| 0:30.0 | maybe 3,000 in Philadelphia. |
| 0:33.4 | The first day in Cleveland in the morning, |
| 0:36.2 | I was riding my bike into town, |
| 0:38.2 | and I saw these two guys walking along in earnest, |
| 0:41.6 | one carrying an American flag over his shoulder. |
| 0:44.0 | So I stopped and told them that if they're trying to get to the convention |
| 0:48.0 | center, they're going the wrong way. |
| 0:50.0 | You got across the river, I said. |
| 0:52.0 | The bridge is down there. |
| 0:54.0 | They just arrived from Los Angeles. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, so my name is Sean Whitti. I'm a Marine Corps Combat Veteran from Southern California. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm here in Cleveland, Ohio for the Republican National |
| 1:04.8 | Convention. The reason we drove 2,600 miles to get here today is because there's |
| 1:10.4 | been a lot of talk about taking this uh... nomination from trump and frankly uh... with the most votes in republican history in |
| 1:17.0 | this country |
| 1:18.0 | it would be a travesty to watch the vote of the american people usurped |
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