Some animals in this country need a serious reality check. I'll never understand why we tolerate this behavior. Demonstrating and protesting is one thing, but when you go around blocking streets, lighting fires and smashing windows, you're asking for trouble. Where's the taser? The twirps wearing gas masks should be clubbed like baby seals.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080901/D92U49RO0.htmlSome turn violent in march to GOP convention
Sep 1, 3:35 PM (ET)
By AMY FORLITI
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Protesters smashed windows, punctured car tires and threw bottles Monday during an anti-war march to the site of the Republican National Convention. Police used pepper spray in confrontations with demonstrators and arrested five.
Instead of the single coherent march that organizers had hoped for, fringe groups of anarchists and others wrought havoc along the streets between the state Capitol and the Xcel Energy Center where the convention was taking place.
Police estimates of the crowd shifted during the event before settling on 8,000 to 10,000. The crowd was clearly in the thousands, many of them marching peacefully.
The arrests occurred in confrontations several blocks from the convention arena. Five people were arrested for lighting a trash bin on fire and pushing it into a police car, St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh said.
About 20 anarchists who had started the trash bin fire later tried to block the intersection of St. Peter and Exchange streets. Police quickly dispersed the group, then shot two tear gas canisters at the fleeing anarchists.
Pictures taken by Associated Press photographers showed officers using pepper spray on protesters who appeared to be trying to block streets.
"There are people who are committing violations of law and they're being arrested," Walsh said.
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Apparently, there were only 5 arrests, but from everything I'm reading and hearing, it seems that dozens of crimes were committed.
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