Chuck can justify threats of violence against Republicans peacefully asserting their political rights. Just wait until a Green Party or DFL Convention is subject to the same threats of violence.

You’ll hear the whining for years.

We’re also confident our judicial system will do it’s job and hand out very lengthy prison sentences to the 8 terrorists being tried in Minneapolis and of the corrections system that will return the eight to the streets in ten years or so singing a very different tune.

I want to know when are they going to prosecute the abuse of law-enforcment, the illegal search and seizure of citizens, starting with Bob Fletcher?

These arrests and convictions are not Justice, the make a joke of Justice.. they are just a political game.

This article shouldn’t receive any more attention than it already has, which should be true of the MN Independent as well if they continue to publish shoddy articles like this one.

Officials like Bob Fletcher have betrayed the public trust by creating and exaggerating a situation of violence. Prosecutors like Ramsey County Susan Gaertner and St Paul city attorney John Choi betray the public trust by accepting the wild paranoia of Fletcher without the slightest judgment, discernment or oversight. Public officials like mayor Chris Coleman betray the public trust by reflexively backing the most violent elements of the police without the slightest investigation or hesitation.

These actions create a much more dangerous society for us all. We need the rule of law to apply equally to all, even sheriffs and the police. We need to encourage the best and honest elements of our police, not the most violent, vengeful and out of control elements.

- John Choi
I would submit one correction. “They’re creating probable cause to arrest this person”.

Probable cause is an extremely grey area for the pigs and apparently “Choi Boy” as well.
A safety orange wallet or a cap gun with an safety orange tip could all constitute as probable cause if a cop was having a grumpy (or perfectly normal) day.

In the case of the RNC, probable cause to the form of flowers, banners, bull horns, ect. This of course resulted in the small scale bombing (and i do mean small… i dont mean to trivialize the real bombings the the state of Minnesota is complicit in CONSPIRING to reality everywhere but here… most of the time.), shooting, beating, pepper spraying, tear gasing, and the unlawful arresting of 650 some humyns on the streets of St. Paul.

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At the root of all this, lets make a comparison.

Banners – Concussion grenades
Bull horns – tear gas
Free Speach – Arrests
Chants – pepper spray

Broken windows of malicious capitalists/Cop getting checked – millions of broken windows… buildings…. and lives all across Iraq, Afghanistan, and the united states pursued by first world malicious capitalists/cops.

Cry for the fucking cops, prosecutors, feds, banks, or bob felchers/john choi’s of the world?
I’d rather be dead.

Good question. If you were actually on the streets you would show solidarity with the arrestees. Obviously you weren’t, so I would kindly suggest shutting the hell up until there’s a topic you know something about.

Choi is a dupe who will do and say whatever John Harrington and Bob Fletcher tell him to. The fact that so many charges have been dismissed, and so many others not pursued at all yet, is totally a reflection of the totally unjustified police state during the RNC and the misconduct of the officers and national guard there. When one or two cases are found to be not prosecutable, that may be an honest mistake on the part of officers. When upwards of half are found not to be, that points to a systemic failure in a criminal injustice system that has already proven itself useless for anyone except the rich and powerful, and needs to be destroyed now.

The truly poor and actually disenfranchised, in my experience, have the widsom, experience, and common sense not to pick fights they haven’t even the slightest chance of winning.

But, I’m not a trust-fund kiddie, so what do I know?