“You anarchists never learn.”
“It’s always easy to sit and talk shit until it’s your house being raided.”
-comments on “Police break down doors in nighttime raid on anarchist meeting”
“How very appropriate these so-called ‘cops’ stopped the bus at the Cretin ramp. Gives us all a pretty good look at their intellectual level.”
-comment on “Big Green Bus arrested”
“How and why were stormtroopers allowed to run rampant on the streets of St. Paul?”
-comment on “Amy Goodman, other journalists arrested”
“This author really highlights the disconnect between the young white people, often from economically privileged backgrounds (who make up a large proportion of the anti-capitalist or anarchist protesters who have been participating in RNC-related demonstrations) and those people across the country who are facing racial and economic oppression. This march was supposed to be about poor people, homeless people and about poor People of Color exercising their agency and making demands of our government and of the political elite. It’s really sad when their message is interrupted, upstaged, and compromised by those who are allegedly on their side.”
-comment on “Peaceful poor people’s march ends in explosions of tear gas”
“Last night my husband and I went out to eat in Minneapolis and had to drive down Hennepin Ave through downtown. There we saw an occupation force of police officers in large numbers on every corner. I said to my husband, ‘I feel less safe with these officers all over the streets.'”
-comment on “Youth in iconic RNC protest photo was later beaten by police”
“The daily media briefings held by the Commish Harrington and Mayor Coleman are a farce! If I listen to one more glowing report on how the police handled the ‘anarchists’ I will barf!”
-comment on “Twin Cities officials respond to RNC tension”
“Last night when I was trying to cross a street, a frighteningly tall officer in full gear, with the face mask—everything—calmly gave me directions of where to walk. I didn’t trust him, but I reminded myself to keep an open mind. He looked all powerful and inhuman, but I could see his face behind the mask and he was just a guy.”
-comment on “The girl with glitter on her shoulders”
“I’m proud to say my son is a member of the Welcoming Committee and he is a peace-seeking, incredibly smart young man. I know what his intentions were going into this and it wasn’t to purposefully hurt or damage anything or anyone! As a hippie/protester from the 60s, I know how crowds and protests can get out of control. But, you know what, this country was founded on protests and the right to do so!”
-comment on “RNC Welcoming Committee: Meeting the press at last”
“I believe that the RNC Welcoming Committee was a criminal enterprise, more interested in their own public face than anything to do with ‘anarchy.’ I hope they are fully prosecuted, and that their sentences are appropriate, such as extensive community service in the City of St. Paul that they degraded.”
-comment on “Over 300 arrested at RNC protests”
“St. Paul police seemed to perceive pepper spraying people to be option number one for crowd dispersal. My point is: this is a systematic attempt to limit the desire of people to participate in any type of assembly through organized and pre-planned tactics. The anarchist fringe may be the stated target, but who outside of people practicing civil disobedience wants to risk arrest without planning for it in advance? What does ‘free speech zone’ mean in the context of our contitutional rights? How far does the security zone extend? How much more can we expect it to grow?”
-comment on “The night I got arrested”
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