Yes, the people to whom I was referring were meeting to plan a protest. See my linked article above. The man in the cite you provided wasn’t even attached to the group, nor is he linked to any group in your article. Because one whacko had molotovs, that must mean the people in those houses were really planning a bombing, not a protest? I don’t understand what connection you’re trying to make between the two.
The paragraphs directly above yours states: "City Attorney John Choi said his office filed gross-misdemeanor charges ranging from riot to obstruction of legal process against 47 people Wednesday. More than 100 people were cited for misdemeanors, authorities said.
Prosecutors declined to bring felony charges in 44 cases. Of those, 16 were referred to the St. Paul city attorney’s office for consideration of non-felony charges, one person was released pending further investigation and 27 cases were dismissed outright, Gaertner said. "
If you can explain how meeting in someone’s home to discuss a protest is “criminal damage to property,” I’d greatly appreciate it. Especially since the article I linked states the neighbor of one resident who was being handcuffed specifically told police there was no property damage and the police ended up having to release that person. It took several hours to even produce a search warrant. All of this, and you really are supporting that the vast majority of these charges are legitimate?
Even if Goodman was a little too aggressive in finding out why they had arrested her producers and battered them (I don’t think she was from the video) her producers were just covering the story as was the AP photographer they arrested.
Even if some of the groups they raided were planing on doing vandalism rather than just peaceful protesting the journalists who were raided for “conspiring” to film the police were not.
I hope the end result of this is a huge lawsuit that makes the police and sheriffs department think twice about abusing the press in future. the ACLU is looking into it.
As a taxpayer to both the City and the County, this is what I’m really afraid of.
Four years ago, in New York City, the local police were directed by shadowy Federal Officers (FBI or Secret Service) to arrest people, and they did. Then after the Convention, those Federal people went back to Washington DC, and the local police were left to face many ‘false arrest’ lawsuits. And the NYC taxpayers had to pay when they lost. I had hoped our local officials would have avoided that here.
So far this year, we taxpayers are paying several thousand dollars a day to cover lost police misconduct lawsuits. We certainly don’t need any more!
That was actually one of the things that Goodman mentioned, is that she thought that people would have learned from the millions that New York had to pay out for this kind of nonsense.
They will sic homeland and cops on you if you can be identified. The code is so they can use their authority on you. When you are leaving they are getting license plate numbers.
But the bolded bit does not even deserve to be dignified with a parenthetical “allegedly”. Not even if some fucktard in the St. Paul PD is dumb enough to allege it.
BULLSHIT, you fucking dumbass and liar. He tried to get her to leave. He gently pushed her off, but she would have none of it. She tried to push herself past him and she got arrested. So fuck you and you’re lying, the scumbag violent protestors who unnecessarily add to the cops workload, and fuck Amy Goodman, possibly the ugliest woman to ever live. Yeah, it’s got nothing to do with anything, but fuck her anyway—with gonzomax’s dick.