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September 1, 2008

YOUNG VOICES

Violence at the RNC Peace Protest
by Tamika Thompson


 

About 2,000 anti-war protestors clashed with St. Paul Police today, outside the Xcel Energy Center. The peace activists, organized by the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War, chanted, marched and held signs, and several were quelled with pepper spray and arrested.

Our Web team was on the ground to capture the arrests and found that, during the protest, the perimeter around the convention center was so airtight that we had a difficult time getting to the street to take photos.

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