The Battle for St. Paul

Sep 03, 2008 02:16

Pictures from Monday at RNC


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cpt_fantastic September 4 2008, 03:17:50 UTC
Merit is highly debatable. We keep hearing reports in the media of scary anarchist groups, including the RNC Welcoming Committee group, that were supposedly going to go on some kind of terroristic rampage, but so far the biggest incidents have been someone smashing a Macy's window, and a couple of delegates getting something like bleach thrown at them. It's worth mentioning though that there has been a lot of mingling on the streets between Republican delegates and people in various stages of opposition, and i have to say it's been amazingly tension free.

As for the scene depicted here, there really didn't seem to be much in the way of provocation, maybe some shouting. In the river incident a few people gathered that looked like they might try to push their way past the barricade. It's also worth mentioning that the police were firing a huge amount of tear gas and flash grenades, much more than they really needed to. In picture 15 & 16 they were firing it deep into a retreating crowd and many people were then forced to walk through it, which is the actual reason the woman at the end is holding her face.

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