Democrats Pre-authorized Use of Force at RNC

[blindpig]

We know the stories of police abuse, mass arrests, targeting journalists, street medics, use of rubber bullets, plastic bullets, wooden baton rounds, mace, tear gas, tasering and other differently lethal methods of crowd control in St Paul and Minneapolis this week. What is not known is how the local Democratic Party and other so called progressive elected officials collaborated with authorities in the past weeks and months before the RNC Convention in St Paul, giving them legal authority for their excesses and abuses of power.

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Now, before we get to the facts surrounding how our elected officials betrayed us and the Bill of Rights, a truth must be stated. No matter what the local City Councils of St Paul and Minneapolis did, the authorities would have done what they did.

This story is not about that. It is instead about how the local government knowingly collaborated with them, with no input from citizens and finally passed a Resolution granting them legal authority to use rubber and plastic bullets, wooden baton rounds, tasers and chemical weapons that were deployed against peaceful protesters, journalists and street medics treating the victims of their brutality in a secret meeting with no public allowed.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Explosive-News-Democrats-C-by-Michael-Cavlan-080910-808.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. I am gonna need more information about this...

Than just from a Green Party candidate for the US Senate seat in MN. Sorry. Not trying to whitewash here, I just like to keep my bullshit filter at peak efficiency.

[stillcool]

2. I don't know anything about the Minneapolis...

City or Minnesota State government, or why the police would need 'legal authority'. The feds were in full view, and they certainly don't need any legal anything. They can do as they please, as we saw them do. So I don't get it.

[Raksha]

3. I hope this can be documented. My daughter was a protester,

and she and her boyfriend were both arrested--her boyfriend after being on the receiving end of some serious police brutality. If the Democrats had ANY input in authorizing the use of excessive force, there's going to be hell to pay.

[blindpig]

4. Hello, is anybody paying attention? n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Just because politicians give the police the authority to use force ...

... does not mean the police the right to abuse that power.

Take for instance:

[TBF]

6. Yes - K&R

[maryf]

7. Some of us (K & R)

thanks for the truth update!