Continued from part I.
Leaving the Xcel Center, I walk outside and search for whatever gate will spit me out of the security zone the closest to the State Capitol. Riot police are shadowing a march organized…
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Melissa Smith-Tourville says her 17-year-old son Keith is a pacifist and “he’d never hurt anyone.” But yesterday he was the target of violence by police, she says: Trying to leave Monday’s march on the Republican National Convention, Keith…
The following is a comment left at the Minnesota Independent by Melissa Smith-Tourville, who is the mother of 17-year-old Keith Smith, shown above in a photograph taken yesterday by MnIndy’s Paul Demko and published later in the day. The comment…
Two of the 284 people arrested yesterday appeared in arraignment court this morning. Jiro Kanno and Stephen Matthew Goodman stood in Ramsey County District Court on misdemeanor charges. Judge J. Thomas Mott said paperwork on six others facing misdemeanor…
More than 40 annotated images from yesterday’s protests in downtown St. Paul on the first day of the Republican National Convention.
To augment the not very revealing audio we posted earlier of the arrest of Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and some of her colleagues, here’s video.
More about the trend toward detaining journalists and documentarians at this year’s RNC tomorrow.…
Amy Goodman and some of her Democracy Now! colleagues were among those arrested this afternoon at Jackson and Ninth in St. Paul. Indymedia has posted a raw audio file that includes some narration and the crowd shouting at police as…
Directly across from the Xcel Center on the river, about 100 people are being detained with hands atop their heads. There are about 50 St. Paul police surrounding those detainees, and about 80 more officers in riot gear milling…
Lots of arrests happening in the past 20-30 minutes, according to ColdSnap Legal’s invaluable Twitter feed: 20-25 people at 9th & Temperance, reportedly including some Democracy Now! journos; 30-40 at Seventh & Jackson; nine or more at 6th…
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