As hundreds of peaceful protesters were arrested in St. Paul, the police allowed others to vandalize

[Bjorn Against]

I was in Saint Paul this past week for the protests against the RNC. The protests were largely peaceful, but there were a few examples of vandalism and violence in the streets. It seems like it would be difficult to get away with a violent act when the streets are filled with police but that does not seem to be the case for everyone.

One squad car swerved to the side, and protesters smashed all its windows before scurrying into a full parking lot. They dodged cars and slinked through an alley without police pursuit, bringing the riot to an abrupt end. link

So let me get this straight. There are literally hundreds of police officers in full riot gear in the area in which this police car came under attack, and yet the police did not bother to pursue the people responsible for the attacks?

As a person who was downtown during the RNC I know what the police presence was like, and I know it would have been virtually impossible to get by with something like this without having police tackling you to the ground within seconds. And yet when one of their own police vehicles gets attacked they don't even bother to pursue the attackers.

I have seen other reports in the media which show a picture of a young blond haired man smashing a window, and supposedly the police are still looking for the person despite the fact that he was right downtown smashing the window in clear sight of the police. Three other people dressed in black were seen assaulting a pro-Republican counter-protester, but again the media ran the photo of these three people and said the police were still looking for them. The simple truth is that if the police wanted to catch these people there were plenty of officers supervising the situation downtown St. Paul that could have arrested these people. Instead of arresting the people who were truly causing the problems however eight hundred mostly peaceful protesters and thirty journalists were arrested.

There were very few acts of violence committed, and as we can see that there were at least a few incidences when the people who committed those few acts of violence were somehow able to escape a downtown area that was filled with riot police on every street corner.

This suggests to me that the people who were responsible for these acts were not anarchists as the media tells us, but rather agent provocteurs who were working for the police in order to make the protesters look bad.

We need to gather up information not only on the people who were arrested, but we need to document the cases of the people who clearly commited acts of violence yet were somehow able to escape arrest. They are using these people to make peaceful protesters look bad, it is time to show who is really responsible.

[Bob Dobbs]

1. Black ops agents provacateur.

Rather obvious.

[bean fidhleir]

2. Yep. They get a new car out of the insurance.

It was probably the crappiest squad car in the fleet, happily "sacrificed".

[Bjorn Against]

3. When they are given $50 million for "security"...

I am sure they have no problem making a few of those "sacrifices".