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Comment by truth on July 21, 2016 at 10:54am

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Comment by truth on July 20, 2016 at 9:45pm

Cleveland RNC protesters visited by FBI agents, Elyria police

A spokesman for Elyria police also confirmed that its officers joined the FBI at the Lake Avenue house shortly after 7:40 a.m. He did not have any further details.

Anderson said the discussion agents had happened outside the house. She said agents did not have guns in the protester's faces and did not go inside.

Nobody was arrested.

The website Countercurrent News posted an 18-minute video on its website that appears to show the encounter.

In it, numerous FBI agents and Elyria police officers can be seen on the porch and the lawn talking to people staying in the house and asking if they plan to attend any future protest rallies. They told the men in the video that others staying in the house had thrown bottles of urine at officers.

The agents ask about other people they believe are staying in the house. The men said they didn't know who they are.

The Ohio National Lawyers Guild, a progressive legal activism organization that is monitoring the RNC, said the visit appears to have been done without a warrant. This is a problem because those inside did not give consent to search them or the house, guild leader Jacqueline Greene said.

"The Ohio NLG condemns warrantless raids without consent as unlawful police conduct," Greene said in an interview Wednesday evening, adding that her organization has not spoken to the people in the video.http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/index.ssf/2016/07/cleveland_rnc_p...