4/7: Re-Occupy Minneapolis met with heavy police action and 12 arrests

[annm4peace]

April 7 2012 - ReOccupy Minneapolis driven off Peavey Plaza & arrested on Nicollet Mall
Other videographers: assaulted, arrested, cameras held - More videos forthcoming
INFO on MN STATUTE 609.74

http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/04/08/breaking-minnesota-statute-used-repre...
CREATIVE COMMONS WITH ATTRIBUTION
By Dan Feidt for Occupy Minneapolis
http://occupyminneapolis.mn
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http://www.occupyminneapolis.mn/news/reoccupy-arrests-on-nicollet-mall-photos-video/

"The power structure is fighting a losing battle. They can't destroy all the evidence. I was there last night and driving over to the Plaza from Loring to help people move things. Just as we got to the corner by Orchestra Hall and were going to turn left, all hell broke loose. They had a school bus size vehicle and some other large ones to put arrestees in, and the cop cars just didn't stop coming. I wonder what the ratio of cops to demonstraters was! It was a huge waste of city resources."


this email went out in wee hours of the morning
"MPD just rammed horses into occupiers, pulled people off sidewalks and made arrests of peaceful protesters while we marched. 9 arrested, jail support vigil at the people's plaza now.

The end of the day was such a contrast to the start, and to the early days of October. The class war was never going to be easy."


After evicting protesters attempting to reoccupy Peavey Plaza, Minneapolis Police arrested a dozen during a peaceful march. Videos show officers pulling several people off public sidewalks, slamming one violently into the street and deliberately censoring the mainstream and independent press.

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[annm4peace]

1. Minnesota Statute used to repress Occupy Minneapolis 609.74 Public Nuisance

there is more at this link: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/04/08/breaking-minnesota-statute-used-repress-occupy-minneapolis-right-now-unconstitut


BREAKING: Minnesota Statute used to repress Occupy Minneapolis right now: Unconstitutional speech block & apparent pseudo bomb scare drive repression

We have word from downtown Minneapolis right now that the Minneapolis police are using something akin to a bomb scare to shut down the space around the relaunching Occupy Minneapolis space at Peavey Plaza. As usual the pseudo-war on terror lets those Constitutional rights get carved away one space at a time.


609.74 PUBLIC NUISANCE.

I don't think this has been used before (such as the RNC) - and of course at this very moment it is being used here illegally to regulate the content of speech in an unconstitutional fashion. In this emergency circumstance, we have just received the full Westlaw analysis of MN Statute 609.74 PUBLIC NUISANCE and have attached it. We have a more interestingly extreme level of government operations going on -- the exact type of conduct which bills before the legislature seek to conceal under permanent secrecy.

As these things become more extreme, less and less transparency will happen. Basically because they are shoehorning their actions into statutes like 609.74.

Minnesota Statutes Annotated CurrentnessCrimes, Criminals (Ch. 609-624) Chapter 609. Criminal Code (Refs & Annos) Public Misconduct or Nuisance 609.74. Public nuisance
Whoever by an act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor:
(1) maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; or
(2) interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage, any public highway or right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or
(3) is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is spe-cifically provided.
CREDIT(S)
Laws 1963, c. 753. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 23, § 74, eff. March 5, 1971; Laws 1986, c. 444.

[Meiko]

2. Pretty small demonstration

What triggered the unrest..COPS bullying people?

[freshwest]

3. This is harder at night. These streets should have been wall-to-wall with people.

Well-done video, but this needs more people, IMHO...

As far as the cops there, what a lousy job to have, sent out in the streets doing this.

How many real crimes went under the radar while the legislature's stunt took place there?

Expecting things will improve by May Day.

[annm4peace]

4. incase you are in Minneapolis 4/9 some actions

Tomorrow is a big day. Here is a schedule to what is going on.
10am Occupy Homes Foreclosure Action
1:30pm Emergency Rally to Respond to Eviction and Arrest of 12
6pm Picnic @ Peavey let's gather. Bring Self! (bring a snack to share if able)

Also we should be calling RT Rybak's office all day demanding the Mayor to respond to the actions of the MPD Saturday night.
Mayor's Office
350 S. 5th St., Room 331
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Also if anyone who was arrested, attacked, cuffed too tight, or harassed by police on the sidewalks wants to file a complaint against the MPD it is encouraged to do so.