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City of Cleveland clarifies that 'pepper spray' deployed at flag burning was a fire extinguisher

Despite continual protests that began days before the Republican National Convention even opened its doors to delegates, Cleveland police have been on high alert. As of Tuesday, only a handful of arrests had been reported, although that number jumped by five or so Wednesday afternoon (update: make that 17) as agitators went through with their planned protest, which included a flag burning at the edge of the designated security zone.

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Some media outlets, including Newsweek, ran with reports that demonstrators were doused with pepper spray.

https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/755877218304167936

Um, we don’t seem to be the only ones who see an officer with a small fire extinguisher putting out the burning flag. The City of Cleveland reports that police have not deployed pepper spray.

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Now that that’s cleared up and we’ve been assured the protesters were not pepper sprayed (or shot with foam ear plugs) … are the police who were assaulted OK?

Update:

Newsweek has deleted its original tweet, but here’s a screenshot.

Newsweek pepper spray tweet

Unfortunately, the correction still gets it wrong.

The L.A. Times might need to take another look as well.

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