The Latest: Police: About a dozen in custody after protests
Cleveland police say about a dozen people have been taken into custody and will be arrested following a chaotic protest near the arena housing the Republican National Convention.
Butler says the individuals are being held in jail vans while police identify and photograph each one, speak to the arresting officers and take a short narrative of what happened.
Cleveland police say two officers suffered minor injuries when they were assaulted during a chaotic protest centered on a flag burning near the arena housing the Republican National Convention.
Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which organized the flag burning, says the group hoped to conduct the event as a political statement quickly before police came.
The problems for delegates came several minutes after multiple people with their hands cuffed behind them were detained by police in the most chaotic protest to hit the convention.
Multiple people with their hands cuffed behind them have been detained by police in the most chaotic protest to hit the National Republican Convention.
Police wearing riot helmets arrived on the scene and police horses were being used to create a path to a van for people being detained.
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams says that he's "still a police officer" when asked why he waded into a confrontation involving a right-wing radio talk show personality who showed up Tuesday afternoon with a bullhorn at the city's Public Square hoping to speak.
Health officials say no additional people have shown norovirus symptoms after members of the support team for the California delegation to the Republican National Convention got sick.
The health commissioner for Ohio's Erie County said Wednesday that the 11 people who fell ill are recovering and taking precautions not to spread norovirus, or what's commonly known as stomach flu.
A threatened flag burning and a wall-building stunt mocking Donald Trump's Mexican border plan have potential to fuel already bubbling tensions outside the Republican National Convention.