An altercation pitting convention police and the Minnesota National Guard against the anarchist group Black Bloc has ended in a fusillade of tear gas and an unknown number of arrests. VIDEO INSIDE.
This morning at 8:30, a group of about 150 US military veterans against the war marched from the State Capitol to the security perimeter outside the Xcel Energy Center. During the 20-minute walk, the group shouted out a marching song with improvised lyrics to an audience consisting mainly of reporters and photographers. According to Garret Reppenhagen of Iraq Veterans Against the War, the organization that sponsored the march, “We really want to pressure John McCain’s campaign to bring veterans’ issues to the forefront. We’re very shocked that despite being a veteran himself, he’s voted very badly on issues affecting his fellow veterans.
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MnIndy reporters are on the streets of St. Paul following progress of the sanctioned March on the RNC and other marches that have splintered off. At around 1:40, reporter Jeff Severns Guntzel was following protesters down West 7th, along the…
These shots were taken on the Capitol grounds and in downtown St. Paul between noon and 1 pm today, as protesters and a very visible police contingent prepared for the 1 pm march to Xcel Energy Center organized by the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War.
Official estimates of the crowd size were around 5,000, though several veterans of past marches and rallies estimated the crowd at 6,000-10,000.
When I parked near the Capitol this morning around 7:15, a contingent of 50 or so police from Minneapolis were wrapping up a staging meeting in the Sears parking lot. They proceeded to exit the parking lot in a convoy…
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At least nine people were arrested around 1 pm today near the Landmark Center in St. Paul. Their purported offense, according to a legal observer’s Twitter feed, was breaching a security perimeter.
MnIndy convention reporter Karl Bremer, who was at…
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…
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