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National Lawyers Guild: What police seized was not ‘weaponized’ urine

By Andy Birkey | 08.30.08 | 10:55 pm


The National Lawyers Guild has released a statement about the items seized in police raids on Saturday targeting the homes of anti-RNC protesters. Of particular note: buckets of urine that Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said were going…

Reports of additional pre-RNC raids in St. Paul still arriving

By Steve Perry | 08.30.08 | 2:10 pm

According to Coldsnap Legal Collective, an organization that has been providing legal assistance to protesters who will be at the Republican National Convention, there is a raid in progress at 951 Iglehart Avenue in St. Paul, where about 20 cops…