More Protesters Arrested in the Twin Cities
By: Jane Hamsher Saturday August 30, 2008 3:23 pmWe're now hearing that "snatch squads" are picking up random people off the streets in the Twin Cities, and someone from Democracy Now has been detained.
The police are taking action against potential protesters of the Republican National Convention in a series of preemptive arrests and intimidation of protest groups by invading homes and residences and arrests on the streets.
On Saturday afternoon, law agents surrounded 951 Iglehart Av. in St. Paul where members of I-Witness Video, a New York-based group that monitors police conduct during protests, were staying. They were detained and handcuffed but eventually freed without charges.
I guess if they could do it at the Democratic Convention without any comments of concern by the democratic party leadership, it's okay to do preemptive arrests at the Republican Convention.
so it goes..
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