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Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:00 AM

Massive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis

Several "hippie homes" are raided this morning by semi-automatic-weapon-wielding police squads.

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  • Saturday, August 30, 2008 10:56 AM

    Two interesting articles

    about the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department...

    From a few minutes ago: http://tinyurl.com/5poa5p

    "...Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher stated, “This investigation pertains to actions of the RNC Welcoming Committee. The “Welcoming Committee” is a criminal enterprise made up of 35 self- described anarchists..."

    From earlier this week: http://tinyurl.com/686uzq

    "...Two members of Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher's Special Investigations Unit flunked when they took money planted in an FBI integrity test, a jury decided Wednesday.... The two men, both 48, are friends of Fletcher. Naylon was best man at Fletcher's second wedding. Rehak is a former St. Paul police officer hired by Fletcher despite reprimands in Rehak's police personnel file. Fletcher declined to be interviewed Wednesday ..."

    Guess a big fat police raid helps distract people from earlier new like that. Those folks who were raided had better make sure that nothing was stolen in the raids, though.

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