Protesters, police clash in front of RNC

AFP
Tuesday, Sept 2, 2008

Update 1:
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and her producers, as well as an Associated Press photographer, have been arrested.

Goodman has been charged with “obstruction” and released. Her producers were release pending felony riot charges.

Update 2:
Police have employed tear gas against protesters in at least one instance. Watch:

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Update 3:
Video of peaceful protesters being attacked with pepper spray. (Quicktime)

Update 4:
In Monday’s anti-war demonstrations in St. Paul, 283 protesters have been arrested and 139 felonies issued, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Some protests turn violent in St. Paul

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press Writer

ST. PAUL, MN. – Protesters attacked delegates, smashed windows, punctured car tires and threw bottles Monday, a violent counterpoint to an otherwise peaceful anti-war march at the Republican National Convention. Police wielding pepper spray arrested at least 163 people.

The trouble happened not far from the Xcel Energy Center convention site, and many of those involved in the more violent protest were clad in black and identified themselves to reporters as anarchists. They wrought havoc by damaging property and setting at least one fire. Most of the trouble was in pockets of a neighborhood near downtown, several blocks from where the convention was taking place.

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