St. Paul Police Overreact to Protesters

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Holy crap! All those tinfoil-hatty warnings you've been hearing about the good ol' US of A turning into a police state seem to have been pretty spot-on. With the Democratic National Convention, there were a few disturbances, and a bit of over-reaction on the part of law enforcement. But at the RNC--where there were bound to be significantly more protesters--things have really gotten out of hand.

First there was the incarceration of Amy Goodman and others from Democracy Now! And now, it would seem that the St. Paul police are just going nuclear (nookyoolar if you're George W. Bush or Sarah Palin) on the asses of seemingly peaceful protesters.

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Police fire chemical agents, projectiles at RNC protesters

St. Paul police fired chemical agents and projectiles into a large crowd of protesters outside the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night.

Witnesses said the protesters marched from the grounds of the state Capitol after a concert there ended abruptly. . .

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