UPDATE: A third location at 3500 Harriet Ave S has been cleared of its occupants and is currently being searched. No search warrant has been reported.
Police have reportedly raided two locations where demonstrators have been organizing. Early this morning the Cold Snap Legal Collective reported house raids occurring at the 2301 23rd Ave S, home to Minneapolis chapter of Food Not Bombs, and 3240 17th Ave S.
Reports suggest that three were arrested at the 17th Ave S address possibly for “conspiracy to riot.” One arrest is being reported at the 23rd Ave S address for four counts of conspiracy.
Rumors of weekend police sweeps had been circulating for days, and apparently began last night when police raided a dedicated “convergence space” for demonstrators on Smith Avenue in St. Paul. No arrests were made, but protest organizers were forced to relocate their work space.
A mass public meeting to discuss the raids has been scheduled for 11:30 in Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis.













11 Comments »
Comment posted August 30, 2008 @ 6:17 pm
Where would we be without our “Boys in Blue” wasting taxpayer dollars violating the civil rights of fellow Americans. Just goes to show that crime is down and the police have nothing better to do with there time anymore.
Comment posted August 30, 2008 @ 11:02 pm
The world would be much better off if Instead of harassing some harmless hippies, the police arrested the War Criminal-in-Chief when he shows up Monday.
Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 3:57 am
Tell me now why you believe what Bush and Cheney came out with about 911 and how it was the terrorists that attacked us from a cave. This was all orchestrated to bring down the US Constitution and break the middle class. Even the date 911 is the sort of inside covert code that terrorists would have never bothered with. Only in the US would 911 have any meaning. Bush and Cheney are criminals. Bush Sr. started and was in charge of the shadow government which is running these false flag operations to scare the American people and much of congress into giving up their liberties. Alex Jones has been describing the coming police state for years at inforwars.com
Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 4:01 am
Kucinich is the only congressman brave enough to actually call Bush and Cheney out. His convention speech where he explains that Bush and Cheney are running a criminal operation right out of the White House in broad daylight is right on. So many people even now are so brainwashed and broken by years of lies and consumerism in place of real lives and real thought. And God is nowhere in sight unless you count the God that has mobilized to help these vampires suck the life blood from our soldiers and destroy any chance we will ever have a real democracy.
Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 4:03 am
Long live the Constitution of the United States and death to all that have betrayed it.
Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 9:30 am
Amen.
And let us pray that those who continue to think that a big government is a solution will awaken to the horror that it brings.
Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 10:00 am
Fascism is apparently alive and well in Minneapolis. Just out of curiousity I wonder if the Ramseys police wear shirts that are brown in color?
Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Control of the local paramilitaries is split between the ruling parties:
mpls-stpaul cops, henn. co sheriff: DFL
Ramsey Co sheriff,Anoka co?,BCA, MN State police: Republicans
Provocateurs from the republican paras will be used to make DFL controlled paras
react with violence to stupid sheeple protesters. This will make great TV for the
right wing owned media to show dirty hippies (provocateurs) harassing our
“first responder” heroes of 9-11. The later violence will be blamed on the
dirty hippie protesters. Why does the left even play this scripted game that
has the outcome already decided?
Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
Someone needs to remind the police:
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!
Comment posted August 31, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
Kucinich was the only speaker at the DNC who was worth listening, too. The entire country should have slapped their foreheads and moaned, “What was I thinking?!”
Comment posted September 3, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
The more authoritarian their tactics, the more people they drive to the “liberty” parties. I hate to quote a movie like Star Wars but here goes. “People are like grains of sand- the tighter you squeeze,the more that slip between your fingers.”
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