On Notice! Mardi Gras Marchers, Plaintiffs Take the Offensive
Thirty to forty brightly-costumed people marched from the State Capitol to the Ramsey County Courthouse on Tuesday, accompanied by Mardi Gras music, kazoos and whistles, and over 60 notice of claim forms with which to put the state on notice of possible civil suits. The Pioneer Press reported that the monetary damages potentially sought by the claims - not including other claims that may be filed, particularly from out-of-town residents, before the deadlines this week - would total $22,542,100.16, well above the city's $10 million RNC insurance policy.
UPDATE: 2/27 12:30 AM: Several actual lawsuits are already in the works - including some announced by St. Paul attorney Ted Dooley at a press conference at 3:00 Thursday at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul. (See media advisory with VIDEO.) Portland Indymedia journalists Wendy Binion and Alex Lilly appeared at the press conference to announce their suits, and another suit will be filed by members of the New York City-based Glass Bead Collective, which helped produce the film Terrorizing Dissent (along with TC-IMC) despite having thousands of dollars of video equipment confiscated (later to be returned) upon arrival in Minneapolis last August. [More coverage: MNDaily: Suits filed | TC Daily Planet | Strib: Seven RNC lawsuits filed]
Below, see photos from the CRASS-organized march Tuesday.
Corporate coverage:
Pioneer Press | Minnesota Daily | KSTP TV
Related: Miami 2003 FTAA civil suit, six years later
gathering and being interviewed on the capitol steps
over 60 notice of claim forms, just today
little-known fact: coldsnap legal collective members receive 2 weeks of kazoo instruction as part of their 19-week training (just like FBI agents)
on the sidewalk at cedar over I-94
there may have been a snowball war rematch afterwards
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hah! from the kstp
hah! from the kstp article:
"An independent review of the police response during the convention found overall, officers showed restraint, but said police used too much pepper spray and did not anticipate well enough the protestors violent response."
err... "protester." seems
err... "protester." seems their staff writers can't even spell!
review was hardly independent
It was conducted by the Mayor's political cronies. It was tainted with the fear mongering propagated by various federal, state and local governmental agencies which was created to scare the populace into accepting a police state where none was necessary. The report relied on false and misleading stereotypes and gross exaggerations of what actually happened in St. Paul on the part of protesters and the police. Therefore, it was not truly independent at all. In truth it was conducted and presented as a "cover your ass" for the Mayor and Sheriff to justify their actions.
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