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To: nmh

At one point, people pushed a trash bin filled with trash and threw garbage in the streets and at cars. They also took down orange detour road signs. One of them used a screwdriver to puncture the back tire of a limousine waiting at an intersection and threw a wooden board at the vehicle, denting its side. Another hurled a glass bottle at a charter bus that had stopped at an intersection. The bottle smashed into pieces but didn’t appear to damage the bus.

After the official march ended, police spent hours dispersing smaller groups of protesters, employing officers on horses, smoke bombs and tear gas.

Protesters put eye drops in each other’s eyes after police used chemical irritants such as pepper spray and tear gas. Some wore bandanas and masks to protect themselves.

Protesters were seen lying on an interstate exit ramp to block traffic in downtown St. Paul and linking arms to block other roads.


10 posted on 09/01/2008 4:35:30 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Beware Of False Prophets/ME-ssiahs Selling Hopium....)
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Protesters were seen lying on an interstate exit ramp to block traffic in downtown St. Paul and linking arms to block other roads.

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I have plenty of clearance and would give them the Rachel Corrie.

20 posted on 09/01/2008 4:50:52 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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