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Monday, May 14, 2007

POLICE RIOT

Please click onto the comments for a bit of news I brought up from the "Life On The Line" thread from CUAPB.

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Blogger Bob said...

BREAKING NEWS: COPS RIOT DOWNTOWN
MPD Riot After Club Closing Causes Many Injuries
Calls poured into our hotline last night with on-the-scene reports of a police riot outside of the Cream nightclub in downtown Minneapolis at closing time. Apparently there was a fight at the club and to get to it, large numbers of cops used pepper spray and batons on people attempting to leave the club. Horses were also used on the crowd. One woman reported a horse stepping on her legs, breaking both ankles. Because she was unable to move due to her injuries, she was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Others were injured and arrested, though exact numbers are not known at the time. There were reports of people running from police, who swung billy clubs and swept streams of pepper spray over large numbers of people, making it hard to get away from the scene.

There appears to be no coverage of this incident in the media, though KSTP ran an article on their website this morning looking for footage of the incident. After that, everything seems to have fallen off the radar screen.

There are many reasons this incident could have gone down the way it did--cops were bored or had poor skills but most likely this is tied to showing the administration that the $750,000 just allocated for "downtown crime prevention" (see article below) is needed to "keep the hoodlums under control." Based on the reports we got, seems like it is the hoodlums in blue that need to be brought under control.

11:33 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CUAPB is a joke... Hey Michelle, how's your posterboy Philander Jenkins adjusting to his new digs?

1:59 PM  

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