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Kent State Calls Michigan GOP Official's Call for "Another Kent State" After Student Protests in ...
Kent State Calls Michigan GOP Official's Call for "Another Kent State" After Student Protests in Berkeley "Abhorrent"In the wake of protests at the University of California, Berkeley, over a planned speech from alt-right white nationalist Milo Yiannopoulos, Michigan GOP official Dan Adamini invoked one of the darkest moments in American history, calling for "another Kent State."
Twenty-eight members of the Ohio National Guard fired shots that Monday in 1970 as unarmed Kent State students protested American involvement in Cambodia. Thirteen students, some of whom hadn't been protesting at all, were shot, leaving four dead and nine wounded.
Adamini, secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party, made the abhorrent, dangerous and offensive statements calling for the death of student(s) on both Facebook and Twitter.
The Manchester County GOP tepidly distanced itself from Adamani while insisting he hadn't meant exactly what he said in the posts, which he has since deleted. He later backtracked in lieu of apologizing.
Read more: http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/02/04/kent-state-calls-michigan-gop-officials-call-for-another-kent-state-after-student-protests-in-berkeley-abhorrent