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“Ban Guns, Not Balls!”: RNC Protest Takes Aim at Ohio Open-Carry Law

HeadlineJul 20, 2016

Protests continue in Cleveland outside the RNC. On Tuesday, two activists scaled a 60-foot flagpole near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and unveiled a massive flag calling on Republicans not to “Trump” local communities. The flag also read “Ban Fracking, Stop Climate Injustice, and Tear Down the Wall.” In another protest Tuesday, the antiwar group CodePink delivered 500 tennis balls to the front steps of the Republican National Convention, protesting the fact that you can carry semiautomatic weapons—but not tennis balls—in the area around the event. We’ll have more on the protests later in the broadcast.

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