Police Tear Gas Protestors by River at RNC 2008 (higher res)

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Video Description: Police violently pursue non-violent protestors who are marching down by the Mississippi River at Shepherd Road and Robert Street in St. Paul Minnesota during the Republican National Convention on September 1, 2008. Tear gas and concussion grenades (aka flash bangs) are used by police on protestors as the protestors try to escape. Later the confrontation ends in a mass arrest (not shown in this video). You can also see Coast Guard gun-ships with two high caliber fully automatic machine guns mounted on each. What such a massive over-kill style of force is supposed to do is obvious: intimidate. What beating up and arresting protestors is supposed to do is obvious as well: squash constitutional rights to free speech, free assembly, and to dissent. Why police violently attack protestors who are not being violent is obvious: so that the news media focuses on violence instead of the message that the protestors are trying to get across... the higher ups in the police state want fellow Americans arguing about whether the cops or the protestors were worse, instead of thinking about the messages the protestors were trying to send to the public.

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• St.+Paul
• riot+cops
• police
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• protest
• tear+gas
• pepper+spray
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[CONTEMPL8TSHIRTS]

it makes you vomit, get real disoriented, headaches, eyes and nose run uncontrolably... some people pass out, and some die. basically the point is to totally take a person out of their normal state and ability to think and act the way they want to... this makes them sitting ducks for the military or police force that is out to either kill or capture them.

[theduke502]

@CONTEMPL8TSHIRTS This is the thing I never understand with all the incidents that have happened like this. How is it lawful for the police to use "riot control agents" on a crowd that is not resisting? Clearly a person can see the crowd is leaving the area, and yet they are gassed anyways. This is just ridiculous. Did you attend the RNC? I know Jason Bermus was there...

[eLO419]

what does tear gas do to you?

[jodyandsteve]

this needed to be on national news as it happened .  Holy crap !!

[spikesmth]

Why didn't the teargas the convention itself?? Woulda been much more useful.

[4aaaaa4]

Maybe if all the families were DRESSED IN SWIMSUITS, People would see that the ROBOARMY AND THEIR MILITARY WEAPONS LOOK REALLY DAMN SILLY.. wouldnt they?

Now you know how the people of IRAQ feel.

Only they were killed to death.

DEATH IS FOREVER.

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