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&color1 \"ifpellison2.jpg\"
\n[Mr. Corvin is seen prominent in the left side of the picture]
\n
\n[Corvin released! Updated Friday evening, 9\/5 – scroll to bottom]<\/p>\n

ImpeachforPeace.org lobbyist and officer D. L. Corvin has apparently been detained while engaging in a peaceful protest march this evening. From what I saw on UpTakeVideo<\/a> earlier today apparently a long standing permit for this evenings’ protest was suddenly, arbitrarily and inexplicably shortened to an hour by Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, entrapping what Mr. Corvin described as “a couple hundred” peaceful protesters who had commenced the march assuming the permit was ‘as issued’.<\/p>\n

A video perspective can be found here:<\/p>\n

\nand here:
\n
\n
\nI spoke with Mr. Corvin from about 8:35 p.m. until our call ended abruptly at 8:49 p.m. He and the rest of the protesters had been cut off and redirected to a freeway overpass at Marion and St. Anthony Avenue near the Sears on Interstate 94.<\/p>\n

Mr. Corvin kept his hands on his head while continuing to talk to me until ordered to hang up by an officer on the scene.<\/p>\n

Here are my notes from the conversation, which I started to take after finding out who else he wanted me to contact if he should go to jail:<\/p>\n

8:41 p.m. Soon to be under arrest – maybe. Being told by officers: “If you stand up or don’t keep your hands on your head you will be shot”.<\/p>\n

8:44 p.m. Looks like all are going to be arrested.<\/p>\n

8:48 p.m. “Do not move until told to do so by an officer.” They are claiming to have found a weapon on someone – thus justifying the heavy-handed tactics. It would be great if we could follow up and find the name of the person arrested for weapon possession at this “crime” scene.<\/p>\n

8:49 p.m. Mr. Corvin: ” I’m being told to hang my phone up. I’ve gotta go”. Mikael: “Goodbye”.<\/p>\n

I have not heard back from Mr. Corvin as of 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

~~~<\/p>\n

[From Mr. Corvin]:<\/p>\n

I was arrested for the Misdemeanor charge of “Presence at an Unlawful
\nAssembly” last night at the RNC in St. Paul. The following is my first
\nattempt to describe what happened literally.<\/p>\n

At about 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 4th, I joined the Anti-War march
\nnear the Capital building on the edge of downtown St. Paul. I had a sign
\nwhich read “Neither (R)eason (N)or (C)ompassion” on one side and “Warning:
\nThe Change You Deserve” with a skull and crossbones on the other. As I was
\narriving, somewhere between two and three hundred protesters had already
\nstarted moving away from their spot at 12th and Cedar, where I understand
\nthe police had prevented them from marching into the downtown “free speech
\nzone”. Protesters continued to chant together as we marched. I filmed events
\nas they happened. There were a huge number of police officers: Some on
\nbicycles, some on horseback, some on other vehicles, and many dressed in
\nriot gear. All attempts to get into the downtown area were cut off by large
\ngroups of police officers and their vehicles. Periodically, the officers
\nwould rush ahead of the crowd in trucks, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles; I
\nassume this was to prevent them from entering downtown. I was feeling very
\nintimidated, but I wanted to continue to participate in the march.<\/p>\n

After about a half hour to forty-five minutes of this, the police started to
\ndetonate what looked to me like flash grenades. Protesters continued to
\nchant “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “The people, united, will never be
\ndefeated!” I could see a considerable amount of smoke at times, although
\nwhether this was from tear gas or something else was unclear to me, and I
\nwas able to avoid it. The blasts from flash grenades intensified sometimes
\nin what appeared to be an effort to reroute the protesters, although no
\ndirectives were issued about what we should do or how to disperse. Some of
\nthe protesters panicked and started to run. I heard officers yelling and
\nthreatening protesters, including one cop who yelled what sounded to me to
\nbe something like “get down and put your hands on your head or you will be
\nkilled.” I also heard one say “Get your hands up or get sprayed.” It was
\nhard to hear over the sound of panic and the helicopter overhead.<\/p>\n

At this point I was very afraid that I might be assaulted and seriously
\nhurt, but I was not sure what to do, and it was not clear how best to leave
\nthe situation. Some people passed me stating that “we’re trying to find a
\nbus” and noting that they weren’t part of the march. Later in the evening I
\nwould have the chance to talk to a photo journalist who said he had been
\nblocks away from the march, but had been pushed in with it with no way out.<\/p>\n

After a little while, when the crowd arrived at Marion Avenue, officers
\nstarted herding protesters south. They announced into a megaphone: “This is
\nan unlawful assembly. Go southbound or be subject to arrest.” What appeared
\nto be flash grenades continued to detonate. It was around this time that I
\nsaw a flash and felt an abrupt impact on my upper right cheek. I believe
\nthat I had been struck with some kind of shrapnel from a flash grenade.
\nFortunately, this shrapnel narrowly missed my eye. I asked another protester
\nif I was bleeding and he said I seemed to be all right.<\/p>\n

Finally, police officers they pushed us south onto the I-94 bridge over
\nMarion near St. Anthony Avenue, where we ran into line of officers in riot
\ngear which stretched across the length of the bridge to the south. We were
\ncompletely trapped here. After some confusion, protesters began to sit down.
\nPolice officers stated clearly through megaphones that we were to put our
\nhands on our heads and that if we were to take them off or stand up, we
\nwould be shot. We were also told that we were all going to be arrested.<\/p>\n

After a while, things started to seem somewhat less dangerous. At this
\npoint, I began a long process of waiting. At around 8:35, I spoke with
\nImpeachForPeace.org cofounder Michael Rudolph. I spoke with him, while
\nholding the phone from a position with my hands on my head, until an officer
\nordered me to put the phone away at about ten minutes to 9:00. I was
\ninformed by Mr. Rudolph that the permit for the evening’s Anti-War March was
\n“suddenly, arbitrarily and inexplicably shortened to an hour by Ramsey
\nCounty Sheriff Bob Fletcher.”<\/p>\n

Soon started to arrest people, but they seemed to be doing it quite slowly
\nfor reasons of which I never became aware. I was one of the last fifty
\npeople or so to be arrested. I estimate it took about three and a half hours
\nbefore I was finally put on a police bus. Protesters sang and talked to pass
\nthe time. Some had medical needs, which as far as I could tell appeared to
\nhave been mostly ignored, and others had to use the restroom. Those that did
\nhave to use it were instructed to urinate into plastic bottles (and some
\ndid). I heard from police at one point that a gun had been found on one of
\nthe protesters. An officer also stated that no protesters had assaulted any
\npolice officers.<\/p>\n

The police officer who cuffed me with plastic bands was somewhat friendly,
\nand he helped me to make some phone calls to significant people before
\nprocessing me. He refused, however, to allow me to bring my sign, which
\nremained on the street. I was photographed, my other possessions were taken,
\nand I was arrested. After being routed to a bus, where I waited for some
\ntime, I were taken to Ramsey County Jail. I waited there again for quite a
\nwhile before being taken inside. I was fingerprinted and my cuffs were
\nremoved, and I was finally allowed to urinate. Subsequently I was placed in
\na cage with perhaps twenty other protesters. Over the next several hours, I
\nwas moved with other protesters from one cage to another with no obvious
\npattern. At around 5:30 a.m., after about 9 hours of waiting, I was finally
\nreleased onto the street. I was able to walk back to my car from here and
\nmake phone calls.<\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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