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Today at the peaceful protest in Worthington, Worthington Chief of Police Robert Ware:
-Said systemic racism doesn’t exist within the police force
-Refused to answer any of our questions until we listened to him, threatened to walk off (1/?)
-Said systemic racism doesn’t exist within the police force
-Refused to answer any of our questions until we listened to him, threatened to walk off (1/?)
-Deflected and ignored a NUMBER of questions including but not limited to:
-Does Worthington police have tear gas on hand
-Why exactly we were out protesting
-What he thought about the statistics showing CPD disproportionately target black people
Deflected with “We need (2/?)
-Does Worthington police have tear gas on hand
-Why exactly we were out protesting
-What he thought about the statistics showing CPD disproportionately target black people
Deflected with “We need (2/?)
to sit down and have a conversation and consider all perspectives” while ignoring and deflecting nearly everything we said, and refusing to consider our perspectives. He also:
-Stated that police were taking pictures of cars in the TWHS student lot in case any protestors (3/?)
-Stated that police were taking pictures of cars in the TWHS student lot in case any protestors (3/?)
“committed crimes”
-later DENIED that officers were running lisence plates even though he just admitted it ???
-stayed that he would prefer to “sit down” and have a “conversation”
-we offered to set up a meeting with a small group of people
-he then REFUSED TO ANSWER when (4/?)
-later DENIED that officers were running lisence plates even though he just admitted it ???
-stayed that he would prefer to “sit down” and have a “conversation”
-we offered to set up a meeting with a small group of people
-he then REFUSED TO ANSWER when (4/?)
we asked if people who came to meet with him would be targeted later for “disorderly conduct” or “impeding traffic”
-again: he refused to answer if people would be targeted by wopo for meeting with him to have the conversation he was demanding
-again: he refused to answer if people would be targeted by wopo for meeting with him to have the conversation he was demanding
This is Robert Ware. He is the chief of Worthington Police and doesn’t believe systemic racism exists within the Worthington Police. He refused to have a dialogue with us and deflected nearly every question we asked, even after we heard him out at his request. @WorthingtonOhio
FORGOT TO MENTION:
HE DOESNT BELIEVE IN WEARING A MASK LMAO, HOW CAN THIS MAN SERVE THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE IF HE CANT EVEN HANDLE WEARING A LITTLE MASK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC
HE DOESNT BELIEVE IN WEARING A MASK LMAO, HOW CAN THIS MAN SERVE THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE IF HE CANT EVEN HANDLE WEARING A LITTLE MASK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC
if you have time to retweet, take some time to send emails to the worthington city council members expressing WHY you’re so angry because our chief of police doesn’t know as he wouldn’t listen to us!!! https://www.worthington.org/Directory.aspx?DID=29
