Cops Take Fury to City Hall ; Blast Mclin, Commissioner for Remarks About Police Protests of Farmer's Speech

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DAYTON -- A group of as many as 50 police officers, widowed police wives and union leaders packed Wednesday's City Commission meeting and lashed out at Mayor Rhine McLin and City Commissioner Nan Whaley, who had called a police protest of a speech last week by a man convicted of killing a police officer in the 1970s racially insensitive.

McLin and Whaley had said they were disappointed a group of off- duty police officers protested a speech by Columbus attorney Derek Farmer. Both said the protest by an all-white group of officers showed how far the races in Dayton remained divided.

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Cops Take Fury to City Hall ; Blast Mclin, Commissioner for Remarks About Police Protests of Farmer's Speech

In 1974, Farmer and a nephew, Calvin Mosley, robbed a downt...

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