Who would have thought that the leaders of Minneapolis and St. Paul would authorize their police forces to infiltrate groups that would be protesting at the GOP convention? I certainly never thought that what I considered a liberal state would countenance the behavior that resulted - in Glenn Greenwald's words, "teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets." Reporters were stopped at gunpoint. Lawyers representing detainees were handcuffed at the scene.
The Land of the Free?
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