FROM MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO
Scenes from a raid
Posted at 2:56 PM on August 30, 2008
by Bob Collins
(6 Comments)
Filed under: Crime and Justice, Republican National Convention
Sara Coffey is a volunteer with the National Lawyers Guild (she's
not a lawyer). She's standing handcuffed in the middle of Iglehart
Street in St. Paul. The police who surrounded a home there had warned
her, she says, that if she tried to leave, she would be detained. She tried to leave. Listen Denis Moynihan, of the group, The neighbors watched the show, as did a few dozen media activists,
posting material to YouTube and various independent Web sites.
Curiously, the only mainstream media at the raid were MPR and Al
Jazeera. I suppose I've left the door open for an obvious and cliched
comment. After about an hour of waiting, police officials on the scene told
the ACLU that a warrant had been signed and would soon be delivered. Some months ago, City Pages
carried a story claiming police and federal officials were looking for
people to infiltrate groups coming to St. Paul to protest the
Republican National Convention. The raids on the eve of the convention would suggest they had some luck in that effort. The raids have put the protest groups on their heels. "The problem
for us now is the panic this is causing around the area," one organizer
told me. "Phones are ringing everywhere, saying 'the police are
coming.'" 
Democracy Now, Free
Speech TV, read an e-mail from those inside the house, saying they were
(are) "media activists." Moynihan told me he was on his way to the
house to pick up a colleague from a group called, Eyewitness Video,
when he saw the police. 
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