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Riot Cops Gas Docile Crowd Outside the RNC

By Chris Nolan, Firedoglake. Posted September 3, 2008.


It should be stressed that this wasn't a loud boisterous march like Monday's, but just a crowd of 100 people walking calmly down the street.
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Police officers used tear gas on a peaceful crowd that was following instructions in St. Paul on Tuesday evening. In an overwhelming show of force, well over a hundred riot police locked down 7th Street between Wabasha and St. Peter, surrounded protesters in the Poor People's March, media, and bystanders and then proceeded to launch several cannisters of tear gas after the crowd was hemmed in.

The police were clearly in a nasty mood. Shortly before the tear gas started flowing an officer on horseback made his horse lunge at me to force me off a concrete median. The traffic island was public property and nobody said anything to indicate it was off limits. If he'd asked me to move, I would have done so immediately. Luckily, since the intersection was locked down, there weren't any cars coming.



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Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.

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Another black eye!
Posted by: LionHeart on Sep 3, 2008 12:19 PM   
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The news pics of those ritors show they are anything but docile.

Democrats have a history of violent riots. One need look no further than their own conventions.

I hate to say it but the republicans and independents that attend DNC events are much more civilized.

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