"Police State" violence in St. Paul?

Our friends over at the The TC Daily Planet are doing a great job covering the recent raid on protesters residing in St. Paul for the upcoming Republican National Convention. In a very mysterious, and slightly enraging, series of events it seems that "police" of some form or another conducted raids on a meeting grounds for many of the protesters converging on the city. It appears that the warrants were shady at best, and that no one was arrested. They were just temporarily detained and photographer for some unknown purpose. The TC Daily Planet began reporting on the event immediately.

Activists, reporters, and attorneys — more than a hundred people in all — milled about on the sidewalk opposite the RNCWelcoming Committee “Convergence Space” at midnight, after police, with guns drawn, used a battering ram to knock down a second floor door and seize the building. St. Paul police blocking the street outside the building could not say what the Ramsey County sheriff’s deputies inside were looking for. “Police state” said activists, who had been ordered to the floor and handcuffed. “This isn’t the way we do things in St. Paul,” said City Council member Dave Thune.

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