Corralled into a Protest

On the 2nd day of the RNC, the Poor Person's March began with arrests, at the Ripple Effect Music Festival in front of the Capital Rage Against the Machine was threatened with arrest if they took the stage, the two events collided, combined, and ended with a peaceful demonstrators delivering a Citizen's Arrest warrant through the fence of the barricade's surrounding the RNC, and, after that, tear gas and concussion grenades. Oliver Dykstra and Leif Utne report. Footage from Oliver Dykstra, Leif Utne, and Corrine McDermid. Edited by Corrine McDermid.

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[MYFreeSpeach4U]

The Constitution as we know it is null & void, as the Patriot act has made it so,, This is as what happen in Prewar Germany and I do not take sides with these people, they right to protest, but not for me, It's to late in the game I believe in taking this country back another way, It was done before and it will happen again, Founders of our country were great men, they also were scoundrels to, But they knew what was important, Live by the Constitution, Live free or die, what's on your plate

[alexjones4president]

All men are created equal, the ones who aren`t become COPS!

[chearn73]

Everyone has freedom of speech...as long as you have the proper permits, issued by the proper people at the proper time and you speak at the time when you are told, at the place you are told. Ahhhh, liberty!

I HATE it when police use horses. It's not fair to the horses...or people.

Anyway, good bit of journalism. Impressive.

[SurferGuy10]

Zack de la Rocha for Pres

[Pommit]

The losers are the police, they are the scum.

[toughterrier]

Saw a lot of fat poor people - must be doing ok on the Mac & Cheese. Let's encourage them to prtotest more so they will walk off the guts!!! Compare these poor people to poor people anywhere else in the world and you will realize these are just a bunch of professional loser posers. And somehow they have the money to travel in the pursuit of hating America.

[meria]

Bush's idea of "freedom and democracy"

Protests don't get covered by the media, so we have their complicity along with the crimes against our Constitution by this entire democrat/republican trickster admin.

It will change when we change it.

When those cops don't get a paycheck will they still show up?

[lizzyb24]

all I have to say to the police there is that it will be YOUR BABIES and YOUR CHILDREN next time.

[beyondyou2]

I heard it from many cops. Go with the crowd. They wouldn't let an elderly couple leave the area, they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I hope those fasicts will get whats coming to them.

[PerfesserJones]

The Federal government gave St. Paul local gov and police 50 million dollars from the US "National Security" fund. They surely did have spies and agents provocateurs on the payroll as well. Anyway, those Americans who care enough to protest make me a proud American. They did arrest people for "unlawful assembly", but that makes no sense to me whatsoever because our constitution ensures us the right to free peaceful assemblies-- which is why they need provocateurs to cause trouble for them.