Reporter Marta Costello gets tear gassed

[Eric J in MN]

Run time: 04:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6L8J3L-2Kw   Posted on YouTube: September 03, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 03, 2008 By DU Member: Eric J in MN Views on DU: 802

 
...in downtown St. Paul.

As the crowd moves away from the tear gas which has been released, the police keep shooting more and more tear gas at them.

Tear gas should be banned.

[gateley]

1. Good job, Marta.

She shows how terrifying it is to be in a situation like that - how helpless and powerless we are.

[DUlover2909]

2. Gee, why haven't I seen this on the M$M programs?

[bdamomma]

13. because they (media) is sanitizing us from the truth,

these police officers are out of control, how long before people really react and take up arms, what will it take?

[mippey5]

3. video

it says i need to post before i can start a video thread...

[yowzayowzayowza]

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:hi:

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[sabrina 1]

4. It's disgraceful

they just can't wait to use all those deadly toys they've spent so much money on, against peaceful demonstrators. Halliburton gets to build the detention centers for their own fellow citizens.

Democracy, what a joke it all is.

[wundermaus]

5. terrorism pure and simple...

Why are we so unwilling to admit that our corporate masters want their slaves (us) to behave? It's so obvious.Democracy is a sham. Work for your corporate masters and shut up or they will terrorize you and lock you up. What part of that reality are we having trouble understanding? The Fascists have taken over so get in line. The showers are next. Think not? Just keep waiting.

[Truth2Tell]

6. off to the greatest.

If another DUer posts here to tell us why this is all really necessary for public order I'm going to :puke:

[Bjorn Against]

7. Holy crap, I am pretty sure that is the march I went to tonight

I did see the police spray tear gas once, but I did not see the scene portrayed in that video so I assume that it happened sometime after I left. That was a very intense protest, but the protesters were not violent. Obviously the police were more violent unfortunately.

That was a very powerful video, and thinking that I was almost stuck in that as well makes it even more powerful. I wish the corporate media would actually show this stuff, instead we get endless smears on the protesters.

[yowzayowzayowza]

8. Exactly what are we herding people with tear gas over? n/t

[countryjake]

9. K&R!

[goddess40]

10. The cops did the same kind of shit in NYC in '04

A good friend got picked up and sat in a filthy warehouse.

The nasty thing they did was demand that people leave and then push them into an area cordoned off with orange snow fence so they couldn't leave - so they arrested them. The cops were the ones to put up the snow fence, so it wasn't a mistake.

[bdamomma]

12. I got the chills just watching this, this is brutal and uncalled force

against people who are not armed.