Through inauguration day. This is an hour. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. We have called this press conference this morning to discuss the preparations for demonstrations that may occur in relationship to the are not duration of the president of the United States. We are joined today by Columbus Police chief, thomas quinlan. Good morning, governor. Thank you for having me. We are also joined today by superintendent colonel richard fambrough. Thank you very much. Thank you for the opportunity. As well as Ohio National guard, Major General john harris. Thank you for being with us. Our First Amendment rights are sacred. We must always and will always respect the rights of Peaceful Protesters. However, i think all americans were horrified by what we saw just a few days ago in our nations capital. Where a mob attacked the capital, where individuals died as a result, and where the constitution itself was under attack. We were horrified by what we saw. The sad truth is there are people
Holding a briefing to discuss the president ialto discuss the l inauguration. Protests expected to take place in states. We will take you there now. Gov. Dewine we are joined today by the Columbus Police chief. Chief, good morning. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate it very much. We are also Highway Patrol superintendent colonel richard sam bro. Colonel, thank you very much. Thank you gov. Dewine for the opportunity. Good to see you, sir. As well as john harris. Good morning. Thank you for being with us. Our First Amendment rights are sacred. We must always and will always respect the rights of Peaceful Protesters. However, all americans were horrified by what we saw just a few days ago in our Nations Capital. Where a mob attacked the capital , where individuals died as a result and where really the constitution itself was under attack. We were horrified by what we saw. The sad truth is that there are people in our country who want to turn peaceful protests into opportunities for vio
Protests. Good morning, everyone. We are joined by the police chief thomas quinlan. Inc. You for having me. Gov. Dewine we are joined by colonel richard fambrough. Thank you for the opportunity. Gov. Dewine 10 Major General john harris. Thank you for being with us. Our First Amendment rights are sacred. We must always and will always respect the rights of Peaceful Protesters. However, i think all americans were horrified by what we saw just a few days ago in our nations capital. Where a mob attacked the capital, where individuals died as a result, and where the constitution itself was under attack. We were horrified by what we saw. The said truth is there are people in our country who want to turn peaceful protests into opportunities for violence. These are violent people. There violence will not be tolerated their violence will not be tolerated in ohio. It will not be tolerated anywhere. Just as we respect, protect Peaceful Protesters and will protect Peaceful Protesters, we will just
Want to talk a little bit about that and really talk about what i describe as a sense of asking everyone whos offered e opportunity to take that vaccine, its obviously your take, but i would ask you to have a sense of urgency fort that and the same goes those who were entrusting with the arms. E shots in those folks in the medical community who are doing this, are doingutions that it, we thank them for what theyre doing. Thatso ask them to have sense of urgency. We cant control how fast the vaccine comes in to the state of ohio and we know theres a scarcity. Know that we have two streams coming in, pfizer, moderna. Those streams get wider as the weeks go on. We certainly hope there are more streams that are coming on, more Drug Companies that will have developed vaccines that are ready to go. Occur, whatope will we think will occur, is that will go out like that and well have more opportunities every single week with more of the in, into theg state of ohio. While we cant control how mu