Note: latest good news: Amy Goodman Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC + Video: Amy Speaks
Sept 1, 2008
Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC
Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department. Charged with conspiracy to riot. Footage from Rick Rowley and Brandon Jourdan.
“Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC“, posted with vodpod
h/t: amnesty4AWOL
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Following the RNC Protesters
More at http://www.theuptake. From our live cam: Corrine McDermid and Noah Kunin are on site for what’s supposed to be the largest protest at the RNC.
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RNC Dispatch #3
http://submedia.tv
Labor Day 2008
1. Rage in Saint Paulice
2. Amy Goodman Arrested
“RNC Dispatch #3“, posted with vodpod
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Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
www.democracynow.org
September 1, 2008
Contact:
Dennis Moynihan
Mike Burke
ST. PAUL, MN—Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen [above].
Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Goodman’s crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press.
Ramsey County Sherrif Bob Fletcher told Democracy Now! that Kouddous and Salazar were being arrested on suspicion of rioting. They are currently being held at the Ramsey County jail in St. Paul.
Democracy Now! is calling on all journalists and concerned citizens to call the office of Mayor Chris Coleman and the Ramsey County Jail and demand the immediate release of Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar. These calls can be directed to: Chris Rider from Mayor Coleman’s office at 651-266-8535 and the Ramsey County Jail at 651-266-9350 (press extension 0).
Democracy Now! stands by Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar and condemns this action by Twin Cities law enforcement as a clear violation of the freedom of the press and the First Amenmdent rights of these journalists.
During the demonstration in which they were arrested law enforcement officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and excessive force. Several dozen others were also arrested during this action.
Amy Goodman is one of the most well-known and well-respected journalists in the United States. She has received journalism’s top honors for her reporting and has a distinguished reputation of bravery and courage. The arrest of Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar is a transparent attempt to intimidate journalists from the nation’s leading independent news outlet.
Democracy Now! is a nationally-syndicated public TV and radio program that airs on over 700 radio and TV stations across the US and the globe.
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Police, National Guard, fire tear gas into protest group
By Pioneer Press staff
09/01/08 “Pioneer Press”
“Police, National Guard, fire tear gas…“, posted with vodpod
Local police and Minnesota National Guard units are using a combination of pepper spray, concussion grenades and tear gas on a group of breakaway protesters gathered on Kellogg Boulevard in downtown St. Paul. The group of about 150 protesters, many thought to be with the group “Funk the War,” had been blocking traffic for much of the afternoon.
At least one person — a young man wearing a gas mask, no shirt and a backpack — was taken into custody. He lay down on the street as a group of officers surrounded him and took him away.
Police also escorted a group of 17 mostly black-clad youth across the Robert St. Bridge in an apparent effort to get them out of downtown.
Rubber bullets were fired into a crowd at Seventh and Robert Streets. At Seventh and Jackson, police have more than a dozen people in a parking lot as police handcuff them. Police continued to spray the crowd with pepper spray. More details are to come.
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Embedded with the ‘anarchists’: RNC protests day one
see
RNC Mole, attorney David Anderson, Outed by Twin Cities Indymedia
Police, National Guard fire tear gas at Black Bloc protesters (vid) + Mass Arrests (Amy Goodman)
Federal government involved in raids on protesters by Glenn Greenwald + Police Seize Bus
Space For Democracy Declines + Live video of police raid on anti-RNC activists + stimulator #2
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Not to sound at all cheeky, but sweet Lord, I’m speechless at what happened to Amy Goodman! Of all people. I honestly can barely believe my eyes and ears.
YES, FLOOD them with calls and emails, this is disgusting!
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It’s a complete disregard for our civil rights and yes, unfortunately they don’t seem to get it unless they are sued. And who pays? The taxpayers/citizens, of course.
Thanks for the link to the emails. Hope they get flooded with emails and/or phone calls.
Email is an option too:
https://mn-stpaul.civicplus.com/forms.asp?FID=69
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Have the lawsuits started yet? Minneapolis needs to be made to pay like NYC was made to pay, for all these wrongful arrests and for excessive force, etc..
Why do we elect politicians who have to be constantly reminded that there is such a thing a Constitution and a Bill of Rights and a right to assemble,etc..? Or do we….
It seems more and more a lawsuit is the only reminder of the Constitution that some ‘authorities’ pay any attention to.