Channel 5 camera man assaulted by Minneapolis PD at Reoccupy Minneapolis Nicollet Mall slo-mo

[annm4peace]

if you see the video's from the Re-Occupy and read the comments from people who were there, it is much different than what the Minneapolis Police spokesperson has to say and how the news reported it.

Here you see Channel 5's camera man assaulted by MPD for just doing his job. Shouldn't that be on the news?

Look for short camera guy behind the cop car.. the abusive officer comes from the right. It took me a couple times watching to see it since there is so much going on.

April 7th Reoccupy Minneapolis arrests on Nicollet Mall including Mpls Police attacking journalists and flipping a commercial news videographer & camera and another indy journalist arrested.
more video http://occupyminneapolis.mn - http://facebook.com/occupymn

After evicting protesters attempting to reoccupy Peavey Plaza, Minneapolis Police arrested a dozen during a peaceful march. Videos show officers pulling several people off public sidewalks, slamming one violently into the street and deliberately censoring the mainstream and independent press.






Join members of Occupy Minneapolis for a rally at Government Center Plaza on Monday at 1:00pm to speak out against the repression by the Minneapolis Police Department and demand Mayor RT Rybak order his police to leave the occupiers to demonstrate in peace in public spaces paid for by their tax dollars. Afterwards we will discuss plans for our next reoccupation attempt, and methods to protect ourselves from police brutality.

We had hoped to reestablish an occupation to bring attention to social and economic inequality, corporate greed, and the foreclosure crisis, but instead were met with a crackdown by the Minneapolis Police Department.

It’s absolutely shameful that the Minneapolis Police are attacking and arresting peaceful protesters exercising their once thought inalienable rights while the bankers and corporate crooks who crashed our economy are walking free.

[annm4peace]

1. so much for a "Liberal Mayor and Liberal City Council"

Mayor R.T. Rybak
Mayor's Office
350 S. 5th St., Room 331
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

contact the Mayor: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/mayor/contact/index.htm

Link for the city council:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/

[annm4peace]

2. Here is the MN Statute the y are use to repress Protest and Peaceful Assembly

there is more at this link: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/04/08/breaking-minnesota-statute-used-repress-occupy-minneapolis-right-now-unconstitut


BREAKING: Minnesota Statute used to repress Occupy Minneapolis right now: Unconstitutional speech block & apparent pseudo bomb scare drive repression

We have word from downtown Minneapolis right now that the Minneapolis police are using something akin to a bomb scare to shut down the space around the relaunching Occupy Minneapolis space at Peavey Plaza. As usual the pseudo-war on terror lets those Constitutional rights get carved away one space at a time.


609.74 PUBLIC NUISANCE.

I don't think this has been used before (such as the RNC) - and of course at this very moment it is being used here illegally to regulate the content of speech in an unconstitutional fashion. In this emergency circumstance, we have just received the full Westlaw analysis of MN Statute 609.74 PUBLIC NUISANCE and have attached it. We have a more interestingly extreme level of government operations going on -- the exact type of conduct which bills before the legislature seek to conceal under permanent secrecy.

As these things become more extreme, less and less transparency will happen. Basically because they are shoehorning their actions into statutes like 609.74.

Minnesota Statutes Annotated CurrentnessCrimes, Criminals (Ch. 609-624) Chapter 609. Criminal Code (Refs & Annos) Public Misconduct or Nuisance 609.74. Public nuisance
Whoever by an act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor:
(1) maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; or
(2) interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage, any public highway or right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or
(3) is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is spe-cifically provided.
CREDIT(S)
Laws 1963, c. 753. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 23, § 74, eff. March 5, 1971; Laws 1986, c. 444.

[provis99]

3. "Public Nuisance" sounds like a "Disorderly Conduct" law.

which in police terms translates as "we don't like you, so we're going to arrest you for something"