Massive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis

The next greyhound leaves for Canada when?

How convenient that the polce have disrupted the disruptors of the RNC... the additional illegal spying on Americans has come in handy for them, to let them know where the protestors are...god forbid if there should be a protest of the crimminal activity that's been going on, in our capitol, for the last eight years. Is this America or are we living in just another third world county..?

dirty hippies...nuff said.

i live in the twin citys and let me tell you, there's some crazy fucking shit going on :-(

When a large protest group names itself after a 60's protest that went wrong, no matter who was at fault, one has to expect the temporary police state that has been enacted on Denver and Minneapolis. I want to see as many people as possible protest in Minneapolis this week, but I also think police and city leaders have no other choice to ensure the safety of RNC attendees and their property.

I personally would like to light the baggage of a few Republicans on fire, stab a few tires of their busses, and otherwise show my rage at the party of the most heinious and reprehensible president this country has EVER seen. But I realize that to do so would only make the liberal cause look bad, and badly hurt the effectiveness of the liberal cause.

There is documented evidence that the police have horrifically overstepped their bounds, behaved brutally and in confiscating computers, behaved illegally. I hope and believe that those incidences were isolated and not the intended pattern of behavior of the police responsible for maintaining safety of the convention participants. I hope and believe those officers responsible will receive appropriate reprimands and discipline.

I hope that these protests are powerful, effective, and free of harm to the participants of those protests, or the participants of the convention. Free speech is a fantastic thing, a wonderful right, but with that right comes the responsibility to behave in a way that does not imply or threaten the safety of others.

Naming their protest group "Recreate 68" was irresponsible, stupid and largely the reason we are experiencing this temporary police state at the Democratic and Republican conventions.

Holy WOW!! if you think the dnc rally was bad this is going to be worse!!

dabne says: "I love how the girl starts out by saying they are just "5 happy people, minding their own business," and then she says they "Politically Aware People," and then it turns out there are 23 people in the home with fireworks in September"
Whats wrong with being polically aware?? and what does having a party with fireworks (one year ago)have anything to do with a search and seizure??

and for huntre's post... the article has mainly circumstantial evidence.... rusty tools, buckets of liquids, these seem to me trivial. as for the jagged metal thats another thing but if they knew who these people are then why not wait till they try to bring this stuff to the convention?? We can only wait and see what evidence, if any, they have to prove the items were to be used in such a manner.

It is called crack down....

Fascist dictatorship is easier to swallow when it is presented in incremental incidents like this.

"A lap-top confiscated here, a highway checkpoint there and the police raid yesterday."

It's easier for the corporate dictatorship to take over by slowly chipping away. This was the lesson they learned from the Nazis.

Welcome to the United Police States of America.

You're Free. Free to do what you're told!

Prepare for a perpetual state of war!

Ride on!

that is crazy unbelievable. police state

Apparently a bomb team was sent to one of the addresses - the police must have been pretty worried what they'd find there.

Gee it seems the Republican party took a lesson from the Democrat Party. For those of you out there who think one party is the answer to the other take note of this.

Yes, they do. The San Francisco police had a stakeout in our place of business watching the gun shop across the street. They were expecting a murderer to come there to get a new barrel for his uzi. They told me that the criminals usually had better big weapons than them. Because they depend on confiscated guns for theirs.

Where is the other side to this story?

I love how the girl starts out by saying they are just "5 happy people, minding their own business," and then she says they "Politically Aware People," and then it turns out there are 23 people in the home with fireworks in September"

Again, nothing wrong with organizing a good old fashioned protest. But where is the police side to the story. They had a warrant. And yes police do use machine guns.

Nobody was arrested, nobody detained. I don't see how this justifies "a police state." A police state is when there is no warrant and police arrest or detain with no reason.

I would be interested in what the police have to say. That would really balance a story like this. This is only one side. I'll look for the other side.

Dmitri_Molotov..".Blackwater is a military private contractor firm. There's a hell of a lot more money to be made in Iraq than in Minneapolis arresting college students. Everyone knows that it's cheaper to use the police than hire mercenaries. They may base their moral stance entirely on money, but it's got to be a LOT of money. Blackwater is out of the question for this incident. Cops are cheaper and look better in the news."

Wrong. Blackwater is now patrolling our border and they have a big fat Homeland Security contract for just such things as protests. Dressed like a SWAT team sounds like Blackwater. If something like a big protest happens you watch who comes in to control the crowd. Remember who patrolled the streets in New Orleans after Katrina? More important remember Germany?

This is insane.
Young people, living their lives within the law....and they get raided, computer, person journals taken....so ridiculous!
Why was this allowed? What are the Twin Cities afraid is going to happen this coming week?

What an outrage....
Have fun this week Repub party< Guess what? not everyone in your state supports the gun-toting, "moral/war" values you do....it's called freedom of speech...

They won't be happy until every Minnesotan is sitting at home, nervously studying the GOP's talking points.

wait until the RNC you havent seen nothing yet, i heard they are expecting 50k plus protesters.

lots of police brutality stories lately...

The RNC bares its teeth and attacks all dissenters.

The only thing remarkable about this is that anyone finds it surprising

Another question was it Blackwater?

I have a question. Are they really protesters? Im wondering if they just gathered up a bunch of (Democrats?) People to try to garner sympathy? Hells Bells our convention was absolutely perfect. Why would anyone bother trying to screw theirs up? They have done a magnificent job already by choosing their lame ass candidates. I smell Karl Rove. In case you wonder what he smells like it is sulpher.

Wow, Orwell was a fucking prophet.