08-16-2019, 02:39 PM
Harry Kim blames Ige for changing tactics the first day of the protest.
Ige blames Hawaii police, & unified command (if it was unified, why were officers so confused when interviewed soon afterward?)
“And the governor obviously had a very difficult decision and said no we should not use force, physical force because the question was of tasers and the question was of mustard gas,” Kim added. (Kim mistakenly referred to the military chemical weapon mustard gas but meant pepper spray.) When Insights host and Hawaii News Now Managing Editor Daryl Huff pressed Kim for clarification, the mayor said that Ige ultimately made the decision to call off the operation to clear the road that day.
Kim’s response is in contradiction to a statement by the Governor’s Office, which said the “ultimate decision” to call off the arrests “was made by Hawaii County Police Department with the support of unified command.”
”Ferreira, of Hawaii County police, also responded to questions about that day in a letter. “The protesters are considered as acting illegally by blocking the road,”
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/08/17...ernor-ige/
Ige blames Hawaii police, & unified command (if it was unified, why were officers so confused when interviewed soon afterward?)
“And the governor obviously had a very difficult decision and said no we should not use force, physical force because the question was of tasers and the question was of mustard gas,” Kim added. (Kim mistakenly referred to the military chemical weapon mustard gas but meant pepper spray.) When Insights host and Hawaii News Now Managing Editor Daryl Huff pressed Kim for clarification, the mayor said that Ige ultimately made the decision to call off the operation to clear the road that day.
Kim’s response is in contradiction to a statement by the Governor’s Office, which said the “ultimate decision” to call off the arrests “was made by Hawaii County Police Department with the support of unified command.”
”Ferreira, of Hawaii County police, also responded to questions about that day in a letter. “The protesters are considered as acting illegally by blocking the road,”
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/08/17...ernor-ige/
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