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Brandon Darby, Texas activist-turned-FBI informant for RNC, pleads his case

By Chris Steller | 01.02.09 | 9:20 am

Brandon Darby, a Texas activist who it turns out was working for the FBI as an informant from within groups that protested the 2008 Republican National Convention, pleads his case in the Pioneer Press today and in a…

Video: Minnesota National Guard mobilized for RNC

By Tom Elko | 09.02.08 | 9:51 am

The Minnesota National Guard arrived in downtown St. Paul carrying batons and riot shields. The soldiers barricaded the intersection of Wabasha St. and Kellog St. for over an hour before falling into formation and marching to Shepard Rd.

Embedded with the ‘anarchists’: RNC protests day one

By Molly Priesmeyer | 09.01.08 | 9:00 pm

All weekend long the police talked of the “criminal anarchists,” groups allegedly hellbent on inciting riots and causing destruction during the RNC. Now today, the national media has used images of smashed windows–there was a Macy’s window smashed, windows of a cop car broken when a cop wasn’t in it, and a bank window smashed, I saw it happen–as proof of a bunch of protesters gone wild.