Nathan Caraway attended Saturday's protest in downtown Columbus, Ohio, he said, not to clash with police but to present a message of peace But video of him amplified on President Trump's Twitter account thrust Caraway into an unexpected national spotlight
Protesters told Cleveland.com that they believed police were inciting the violence, which followed two nights of property destruction and protesters' arrests in the city.officers' use of wooden bullets. Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said he told Police Chief Thomas Quinlan that their tactics were inappropriate, according to the newspaper, and that"they did not meet our community's or my expectations around engagement with crowds of overwhelmingly peaceful protesters.
"Nathan wasn't paying anybody to attack police," Mitchell said, adding that if anything, he had been"tempering the anxiety and the anger that was going on in the crowd." He described Caraway as a"pacifist." "I don't think the burden of proof should be on Nathan and any of his friends," he said."If you had seen that video without any spin or headlines, you wouldn't have extrapolated that he's part of a terrorist group."shared Monday by someone who said he was at the protest wrote that he saw Caraway and"never witnessed him vandalizing."
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