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If you haven't heard about the appalling use of police force against protesters and journalists in St. Paul outside of the Republican National Convention (and how would you? I was only able to hear about it from one news source today), go watch today's Democracy Now! edition. Why more media outlets have not reported on these atrocious events quite frankly astounds me.
Fair warning: some of the video shown is very disturbing, if you, like me, don't like to see officers in full riot gear shove to the ground a journalist with a video camera and arrest her with no just cause.
When did our country become China? I feel sick.
And here is a link to the transcript and video download of the discussion between Amy Goodman and the two arrested Democracy Now! producers. This is the video which shows the disturbing image - through the POV of her video camera - of Nicole Salazar being knocked to the ground by police and screaming. It's hard to believe that this took place in St. Paul, Minnesota and not St. Petersburg, Russia. Absolutely appalling.
