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Impeach for Peace Cofounder, Jodin Morey, dressed in a Guantanamo Bay suit was shot, along with others, with rubber bullets while peacefully protesting in the RNC’s Free Speech Cage in St. Paul, MN. This occurred shortly after the end of the march for poor people and human rights. Here’s his audio story:
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Here’s video:
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End of March, citizens arrest speech by march organizer.
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Cop who march organizer had been speaking to..
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Citizens arrest delivery by march organizer.
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Police violently vacating free speech zone for “unlawful assembly?”
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Protesters harassed while obtaining bike
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Protester Pepper Sprayed
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After this, things got too wild for me to consider taking pictures…<\/p>\n

Minnesota Monitor — … The march reaches its end at the walls of the Xcel’s security zone. Riot police stand behind the cage-like walls with pepper-spray canisters drawn.<\/p>\n

Cheri Honkala, one of the organizers of the march, takes a bullhorn and gets a boost on a friend’s shoulders.<\/p>\n

“Listen up! ” we want to thank all of you for a peaceful march today (cheers) ” We wanna show what kind of disciplined army we’ve got to put an end to poverty, hunger and homelessness!”<\/p>\n

Next she orders the crowd to repeat her words”\u201cwhich they do:<\/p>\n

“I promise ”<\/p>\n

“To be peaceful ”<\/p>\n

“Because we are nonviolent ”<\/p>\n

“We have people who are in wheelchairs ”<\/p>\n

“We have little, tiny, newborn babies ”<\/p>\n

“And children in strollers ”<\/p>\n

“So I promise not to do any dumb shit!”<\/p>\n

Honkala also announced her intention to walk into the RNC security zone to deliver a giant American flag and notice of a citizen’s arrest for “crimes against humanity.” She did not name names.<\/p>\n

And with that, she walked to the gate, escorted by supporters who sang: “I went back to the rich man’s home and took back what the rich man stole””<\/p>\n

She slipped the flag under the security wall and stuck the notice of arrest through a slot. “I want to practice my First Amendment rights,” she said through a bullhorn. “But not through a cage.”<\/p>\n

And she walked back to her marchers, who began to turn around. Many — maybe 100 — remained. It is difficult to say how many of those people joined the march at the Capitol building. One protester, betraying dashed hopes for a clash, struck a street sign with his open hand and stormed off. An uncertain but still protest-inclined crowd remained.<\/p>\n

Riot police were spilling into position from behind a building — the Dorothy Day Center (a homeless shelter). Playing on a giant screen fixed to the side of the Xcel there were photos, one after another, of John McCain’s war days.<\/p>\n

The police began their march on the marchers — attempting to flush them out from the dead-end street where they had concluded their march.<\/p>\n

People moved — some quicker than others.<\/p>\n

Two women just ahead of the police line tried to unlock their bikes. The police line descended on them and one officer gave the women a hard shove with his baton. A protester yelled out: “This shit is sick, dude!” Another cried out: “Leave the bikes!” The police relented somewhat and the bikes were freed.<\/p>\n

An officer announced the imminent use of chemical agents.<\/p>\n

As the remaining protesters chanted “Whose streets!? Our streets!”, another line of riot police could be seen running into position behind them. Best anybody could tell in the early darkness, they were being surrounded, although I could see no indication of the kind of violence that might prompt such a tactical maneuver.<\/p>\n

And that’s what it was from that point on: tactical. Like a military exercise. The display of law enforcement resources was staggering. Riot police could be seen in all directions, some with rifles for firing non-lethal “impact rounds” pointed at the protesters.<\/p>\n

By now some of the protesters had left the dead-end street and were headed toward the Capitol. Then came the explosions and the smoke bombs. They sounded like sound grenades — or concussion bombs. They made an incredible sound. Screams could be heard and smoke seen rising. I ran with others to the scene of the explosions, but we were blocked by police.<\/p>\n

Somebody shouted: “Which way do you want us to go?” There was no clear answer. Then suddenly the police parted a small bit and one of them yelled “Go now or be arrested. Go! Go! Go! Go!”<\/p>\n

Once we turned the corner the police were quick to create another wall behind us. In front of us, a spectacle: a street lined with riot police — shoulder to shoulder — that stretched for blocks.<\/p>\n

It was an exceptionally uneven response to what I and others had witnessed of the march. There were rogues, sure. But rogues of the insult-spitting variety. And occasionally there was a protester inspired to merely stand still or lay down before the police. Those incidents were limited and brief. Mostly, as police advanced, protesters retreated.<\/p>\n

It went on like this — it seemed at times to go on forever.
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