RNC protests: Attorneys say arrests after flag burning should have never happened
Published on Cleveland.com by Adam Ferisse
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Attorneys for the 18 people arrested Wednesday following a flag burning outside the Republican National Convention say the arrests should have never happened.
James Hardiman, the attorney for the NAACP, said Cleveland police acted irrationally when they arrested the group, which included Gregory Lee “Joey” Johnson, who in 1989 won a case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that said flag burning is protected speech.
Why the Cleveland Division of Police chose to treat a constitutional right as a crime, Hardiman said, flies in the face of the Constitution.
