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BURIED TAPE REVEALS USE OF FORCE AND AN UNWARRANTED MASS ARREST OF BYSTANDERS DURING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (September 18, 2008) ? Video released today shows the indiscriminate arrest of a crowd of two hundred at the waterfront across from a concert on Harriet Island Regional Park during this month?s Republican National Convention in St. Paul. The video includes multiple angles of the event as well as an interview with the cameraman who buried his footage and was one of almost two hundred people arrested for rioting without probable cause.

More than eight hundred people were arrested in St. Paul during the Republican National Convention. This video shows that at least twenty percent of the eight hundred plus arrested were seized without due cause.

To view the video: http://blip.tv/file/1274115
or: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQrWTRAZmA&fmt=6
Broadcast quality h264: http://glassbeadcollective.org/rnc/LaborDayInThePark_sd.mov
(Also featured @ firedoglake & Minnesota Independent)

--Video produced by Glassbead Collective w. support from Twin Cities Indymedia--

Audio collage mix of protest sounds and media from the streets of St. Paul Minn.
Preventive detention raids, Democracy Now arrests, concussion grenade and teargas attack.

Download mp3 RNC 2008 Remix:
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/09/11/pdr_rnc2008.mp3

Article at:
Santa Cruz IMC http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/11/18536711.php

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I'm not an anarchist. At least I wasn't one of the kids running around the Xcel Energy Center in black handkerchiefs during the St Paul RNC. Nor did I store my urine in a bucket for a week to throw on delegates, and I didn't break any windows either. But, I was one of the people detained by police on Monday. One of my co-workers even saw me on the Channel 11 news, zip-tied like a hog, being led away walking backwards by two riot police. I'm assuming that he knew me well enough to reason I wasn't there with violent intent, but asked nonetheless why I went to downtown St Paul that day.

"America needs to know what's going on in Minnesota. The police state actions that Americans deplored in China during the Olympics are happening here in the US, outside the Republican convention. Reporters from all media should be outraged at the brutal treatment of their fellow journalists," said Mark Dunlea, an attorney, former Chair of the Green Party of New York State and a long-time host of Capitol Report, a public affairs radio show.