Cop drags protester through the street, get’s tackled.

This video shows a member of the non-violent, human rights group, Blac Bloc getting tackled by a cop. Minutes later, the cop gets tackled by another protester which knocks his captive free. And that’s not all that happened yesterday.

Rage Leads March at 2008 RNC.

Yesterday, cops tear gassed a group of people that had initially assembled on the lawn of the Minnesota’s capital building after the Internet became rife with reports that Rage Against the Machine would make an appearance at the Convention. Zack de La Rocha and Tom Morello performed an unplugged version of Killing in the Name Of, and then led the crowd on a short march. The problem was that Rage’s unplanned march ran directly into another planned march being held by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, swelling the size of Rage’s small crowd by several thousand. This of course made the cops freak out and overreact. Which is just pretty much what has been happening in St. Paul since last week.

Man, I know former Minnesota governor, Jesse Ventura, would never had let this happen in St. Paul.

Thanks to the Red Davey Kid for the protest linkage…

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