Amy Goodman - "probable cause to riot"

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Amy-Goodman-Arrested-At-RN-by-Kevin-Gosztola-080901-693.html

"A post on the Minnesota Independent has a link to ColdSnapLegal’s invaluable twitter, which shows a detailed breakdown of prior incidents involving police and protesters that have been happening throughout the day. The twitter shows a report of Democracy Now! journalists being arrested and includes Amy Goodman. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

m-fing assholes

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

He thought he was simply arresting just another protester, but this one will result in repercussions. The arrest was entirely without any basis.

Who are these goons playing dress up?

yell, Let Her Go!

to me; but I'm still stuck in a pre-9/11 mindset. Some codswallop about civil liberties and such. I haven't yet been able to wrap my brain around the post-9/11 mindset.

:(

saw the same fascistic police tactics first hand then. It's just getting different with intimidating storm trooper costumes, pepper spray, rubber bullets, stun guns but batons were used then like they are wielded now.

don't even think about reporting on this. I read that they knew who she was because before they put her in the van she one of the 'police' said they were isolating her from the others who were arrested.

because they don't want a competent journalist to know what they're doing.

:sarcasm:

I think I'm too tired for :sarcasm:

Washington and New Orleans, and never have the police acted like this. Are there police provocateurs in the crowd? A la 1968?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x380203

Today's Star Tribune added that the raids were specifically "aided by informants planted in protest groups." Back in May, Marcy Wheeler presciently noted that the Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force -- an inter-agency group of federal, state and local law enforcement led by the FBI -- was actively recruiting Minneapolis residents to serve as plants, to infiltrate "vegan groups" and other left-wing activist groups and report back to the Task Force about what they were doing. There seems to be little doubt that it was this domestic spying by the Federal Government that led to the excessive and truly despicable home assaults by the police yesterday.

:kick:

biting us in the butt - turning these police into militaristic thugs.

acting like such Nazi's? At our convention we treated protesters pretty respectfully.....

I felt the police presence during the DNC was extremely unproportional to the size of protesters.

"From the first day of the convention, Denver presented an overwhelming force of riot police, police on horseback, bike, and foot, as well as an awesome array of police cars, buses for mass arrests, swat tanks, and large SUV’s to transport officers." - by August 31st, 2008 CoyoteJ at http://dnc.kgnu.org/

Now "the Denver Model" has been "succesful", they use it elsewhere with confidence and affirmation....

Is there anything that the police can possibly say to justify this arrest?