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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.
barriers.
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.
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olddots
(10,237 posts)they're gonna need plenty of them .
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)He can tell them all about how his dad ran the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.
spanone
(135,861 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)let them buy their own security, police, the whole nine yards.
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)Better yet, let them open carry.
It's their gosh-darn kkkonstitutional right.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)I have a feeling that the Republican convention is going to get very nasty.
-- Mal
0rganism
(23,967 posts)hell, it's about time
or, in the words of Mr. Findley,
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)msongs
(67,436 posts)saturnsring
(1,832 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)and declare martial law?
rexcat
(3,622 posts)but that did not work out so well at Kent State University May 4, 1970. I am not sure why the Cleveland police even need barricades. They tend to shot on first sight anyway.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)The convention wasn't forced on them, they wanted it.
What part of "successful bidder" do they not understand?