police brutality

Police Misconduct A Threat To Free Speech

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 2, 2008

CONTACT: Rachel Myers, (212) 549-2689 or 2666; media@aclu.org

MINNEAPOLIS - Amid charges of police misconduct during the Republican National Convention in Minnesota, the American Civil Liberties Union called for accountability for any unconstitutional actions there.

Funk The War, a students' peace activist group based on ending the war thru music and fun and direct action, took to the streets 9/1 in St Paul and were attacked by over zealous bike cops with bikes and "less lethal" weapons.

2:51 Unconfirmed report that the bus of riot cops just left the convergence center.

2:47: Unconfirmed report that a bus of riot cops pulled up to the convergence center.

2:45: Unconfirmed report that an armored truck is parked near the convergence center.

1:12 PM: Unconfirmed report indicates police have left the convergence center after a small scale raid.

Police are about to raid DNC Convergence Center. Happening right now*

The Convergence Center for activist coordination and planning, etc. is about to be raided by the Denver Police Department.

Two people have been arrested, another is being detained, reports from the inside say that the police are attempting to get a warrant to raid the entire location and carry out more arrests.

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On July 3rd Law Enforcement Officers attacked Kid Village at the Rainbow Gathering with Tazers and Pepper Ball Machine Guns.

Related Links ::: Kid Village Attack Chronological Composition, Full Video Source Clips of the incident, Wyoming Gathering 2008

These are the links for the most recent stories in the local Gannet owned corporate rag which naturally said the non-violent demonstrators who were marching down a highway with a police escort were putting others in harms way when the police suddenly changed their mind about giving them the escort and decided to riot instead perhaps as a memorial to Bull Connor's attack on Martin Luther King.