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This just in from OccupyMN on Twitter:
“5 or 6 arrests at 9th and Nicollet including media and legal observer”
Make that eight arrests at least.
There’s a link above to the Ustream live coverage of the arrests. Apparently the MPD had been planning this from the get-go. A Tweet from three hours ago indicates MPD was tailing the Occupiers:
“Took the street, #mpd on our tail. Whose streets? OUR STREETS”
Undaunted, OccupyMN is now back at the Peoples’ Plaza (aka the Hennepin County Government Plaza) for a meeting in solidarity with their jailed Occupier kindred. Follow the OccupyMN Twitter feed for more information as it happens.
UPDATE — 10:00 am, April 8: This just came to me via email:
I believe this is KSTP videographer cnelson getting assaulted last night — the second journalist arrested [PW adds: Andrew Neef, OccupyTV] was released but his camera has not been released yet, however its wide lens would also show another close angle of the assault.
unedited version (because all too often we get the claim there is
selective editing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_iOXECa1Rwslow-motion version shows more clearly the action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2uDcMI71rs&feature=youtu.be
^^
these videos are available as creative commons with attribution to
RogueMedia.orgOther videos from last night are posted at http://youtube.com/hongpong .
More videos from other videographers present and photo stills are
available at http://occupyminneapolis.mn mostly under Creative Commons
license.
Best regards,
Dan Feidt
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Good luck, OccupyMN!
Remind me again… what is Occupy, and why should I care?
Check the links you like to rely on; you do not need to care.
Mayor Ryback and his fellow mayors nationwide are destroying the Democratic brand,
one Occupy crackdown at a time.
What was the justification for the arrest?
RevBev,
Happy Easter
The only person nicknamed shooter is dick cheney
Could it be they took 242 pieces of birdshot out of Harry Whittington face ?
Coincidence ? Perhaps.
Thanks….yeah, a high score ;)
Thanks!
Thing is, Rybak has no control over the Hennepin County Government Center land — that’s not city territory, but governed by the county. Unless he and Hennepin County Sheriff Stanek came to a gentlemen’s agreement over this, which is not out of the question.
This just came over the email transom:
We had a visitor from MN at (un)Occupy a while back, and this makes it all the more personal. Very sorry, the security state is out of control.
Here’s a view inside the paddy wagon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPNVA36Tuy8&feature=youtu.be
Has anybody looked into whether using a horse as a weapon is in violation of law and ASPCA regs? In Minne or elsewhere.
Anybody get the name of the malicious hateful pig of a Police Officer who committed the assault and battery on the Cameraman? Clear evidence of battery. That cop must be fired.
Mounted thugs, a sack of ball bearings and a handful of jacks does wonders for demounting the PD. Not totally fair, but then neither are they. just think of it as equalization of the opposition.
Because they can; that’s all the reason they need. Plus they don’t want the powers-that-be annoyed.
Because the same thing will happen to the Tea Party once they finish their “useful idiots” role.
That was funny, thanks for the chuckle. Although I’d alter the label to read: ‘useless idiots’.
Hmmmm. Good question.
Phoenix
I just got back into town. Thanks.
There will be a related story about Occupy Minnesota in the very near future.
I couldn’t do that to a horse.
OUCH!
Nice catch.
Just went directly from the end of Jesus of Suburbia video to screechy megaphone at start here.
Tweeted. Surreal. Very sorry to see this, please be careful. So much is wrong here, I don’t even know where to comment, but, for starters, horse versus person-face-down-in-the-street has Level One Trauma Center written all over it, just a thought.