Thursday, September 11, 2008

my detainment

http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/695/

Actually video footage of police confrontation of my detainment. No dispersal order, no communication, just a whole ton of tear gas.

I was fairly far behind the people with the banner but still got trapped in clouds. The mention of "Chelsea, keep moving" is a friend I was right next to. The guy asking Oliver if he is alright is Shannon, and I was a couple yards behind him at that time. Tear gas hurts. No dispersal order was issued, no one was being violent when the cops. The Uptake also has a video of our detainment and the arrests of 150 people who had "hurt a lot of people" according to the police that talked to us. All the kids in the front of the line were in the peaceful protest and were with us the whole time. I saw no violence.

Here is our detainment.

http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/689/

1 comment:

John Wenstrom said...

Hey, Jess!
Thanks for the links! To say that this stuff is disturbing is a huge understatement. Thanks for your efforts to try to keep the facts about the federal security effort during the St. Paul RNC from being swept under the table!
Whinny