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Cleveland Police Chief Says Charlottesville Underscores the Need for Police to be Overprepared

Ideastream Public Media | By Mitch Felan
Published August 17, 2017 at 9:41 PM EDT
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams says the killing never should have been spread by social media.
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Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams says the killing never should have been spread by social media.
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams says the killing never should have been spread by social media.
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Williams says that the rally was a wakeup call to police around the country to over-prepare.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams spoke to the Akron Roundtable today about community trust, police responsibility and the status of reforms in his department.

The audience asked Williams whether Cleveland police would be prepared for an event like the violent unrest at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last week.

"I think that Charlottesville is a wake-up call for a lot of folks, a lot of jurisdictions, to make sure that if anything close to that comes to your community that you over-prepare.”

You can listen to the full Akron Roundtable address Chief Williams next Thursday at 8 p.m. on WKSU.

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Mitch Felan
Mitch Felan is a news intern for WKSU. He is a multimedia journalist with experience in print, television, radio and visual journalism. Felan is a junior at Kent State University, working towards a Bachelor's Degree in Multimedia Journalism. During the school year, Felan works for Kent State Student Media in TV2, The Kent Stater, and KentWired. He will be serving as the Digital Director for Kent State University's Student Media Newsroom in the Fall.
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