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Monday’s question of the day seemed to be, “Where is everybody?”
That was the common phrase among the few protesters found in front of the Harold K. Stubbs Justice Center in downtown Akron.
The recent killing of Jayland Walker, who was shot 60 times by Akron police on June 27, has sparked days of mostly peaceful but sometimes violent protesting throughout the city.
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Around 7:30 p.m. Monday, the scene was peaceful as about 75 people were gathered just 90 minutes before a city-ordered downtown curfew was to go into effect.
By 9 p.m., the crowd had totally dispersed.
At one point Monday, Jillian Smith was the only protester in the area. Smith is the manager at Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre in Highland Square, one of the few Black-owned bookstores in Ohio. She said the bookstore’s other employees would be joining her later.
“We specialize in carrying Black writers and marginalized writers … those books are what we need to be reading right now because those are the books that are teaching white people to unlearn (false narratives).”
Protest at Mayor Dan Horrigan’s home
That afternoon it seemed like “everybody” was outside of Mayor Dan Horrigan’s home. At least 100 armed and unarmed people were at the protest, and at least two of them were arrested. Protest organizers were making plans to bail them out of jail once the march came to an end.
The protest was organized by The Freedom Black Led Organizing Collaborative (BLOC), a local organization that aims to build Black political power and to equip the Black community with capacity-building tools on civic education, civic engagement, campaign management and leadership development.
At first protesters congregated at the intersection of Tallmadge Avenue and North Howard Street, then made their way down Howard Street to Horrigan’s home. They then returned to the Family Dollar Store on Howard Street, where the The Freedom BLOC’s executive director, Raymond Greene, gave a speech.
Contact Beacon Journal reporter Tawney Beans at tbeans@gannett.com.
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Former President Donald Trump tried to call a witness set to appear before the House Jan. 6 Committee, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed in a bombshell statement right at the end of Tuesday’s hearing.
Trump allegedly called the witness, whose identity has not been revealed, following the committee’s last hearing on June 28, said Cheney, who serves as the committee’s vice chair. The witness didn’t answer Trump’s call, instead referring it to their lawyer, who referred it to the committee. The incident has been referred to the Department of Justice, Cheney added. She said the witness has not yet appeared publicly in hearings.
“We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,” Cheney said.
The surprise revelation came at the end of the nearly three-hour hearing in which the committee detailed the far-right operation that took Trump’s words as a call to action to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. The committee heard from past members of the Oath Keepers, some of whom were shown in videos with Trump associates such as Roger Stone and on the streets of D.C. in the run-up to the attack.
The committee also revealed that Trump had planned to order his supporters to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, a far cry from the spontaneous move he later painted it to be. The committee showed a tweet that was drafted—but never sent—telling them to do so after his speech on the Ellipse.
After his supporters did just that, storming the Capitol building as Vice President Mike Pence prepared to certify the election results, those who tried to re-elect him, including former campaign manager Brad Parscale, suddenly regretted getting involved.
“This is about trump pushing for uncertainty in our country,” he texted ex-Trump flack Katrina Pierson. “A sitting president asking for civil war.” He later added he felt “guilty for helping him win.”
The hearing also featured a detailed retelling of a wild Oval Office meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, that pitted White House lawyers against Trump’s motley crew of election deniers. In the six-hour meeting, which went past midnight, Trump loyalists Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn and Rudy Giuliani insisted there was fraud and floated bonkers ideas for overturning the election, like appointing Powell a special counsel.
After describing screaming matches and near-physical confrontations, the committee showed a photo of chief of staff Mark Meadows escorting Giuliani out of the White House—snapped by star witness Cassidy Hutchinson—so he could not get back into the president’s ear.
“Donald Trump is a 76-year-old man,” Cheney said regarding Trump’s judgment, or lack thereof. “He is not an impressionable child.”
In her closing statements, Cheney and committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said the committee will detail the events of Jan. 6 “minute by minute” during its hearings next week.
“We’ll tell the story of that supreme dereliction by the commander in chief, how close we came to a catastrophe for our democracy,” Thompson said. “And how we remain in serious danger.”
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