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Guns Drawn, Cops Bust in on Citizens Who Plan to Protest RNC

Posted by The Uptake and Democracy Now at 3:00 PM on August 31, 2008.


The police where looking for Molotov cocktails, found young adults watching a movie.

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This is video from the first of a series of raids Ramsey County Sherrifs deputies carried out on groups, people and locations related to plans to protest the Republican National Convention. This raid happened at 10pm on Friday night and Wyoming and Smith in St. Paul.

The pattern of detaining, searching and then releasing large numbers of people would be followed in the several raids that followed on Saturday.

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