My report on the Heffelfinger/Luger report of Police action during RNC

[annm4peace]

I went to the St. Paul City Council meeting to hear about the RNC police tactic report.

I did except the report to be bias, as it was led by two Prosecutors, but I had no idea how unprofessional it was. I'm over 40, professional, currently work in business, church going, Democrat, supporting member of Veterans for Peace.. and I was so embarrassed and saddened by the words and comments made by Heffelfinger. I could not believe this guy was FEDERAL Prosecutor. He sound a bit like Rumsfield and a bit like Katherine Kerstner. I couldn't stop shaking my head as he made the absurd comments of what went down during the RNC. Some comments where even juvenile. When describing the police on day 4 terrorizing the protesters in the Sears parking lot (my description).. he said the police where doing "whack a mole".. if you saw the film "Terrorizing Dissent" you will see what "whack a mole" looks like. Another weird thing.. he gave a blanket name for those arrested as Anarchist.. I lost count of how many times he said "Anarchist"... He would mention how the "anarchist" came to do Violence on St. Paul and the RNC.. and ruined it for the Peaceful Protesters. Yet when showing the pictures or videos I saw images of kids in black/dark colors and bandannas, mixed with older people in various types of clothes, those "peacekeepers" and legal watchers in their neon hats. Just like I am ashamed for our national when Rumsfield would talk, I was ashamed when Heffelfinger and Luger gave their report. It was unbelievable.

It is too much to ask for the truth? They have a narrative.. no numbers, no real facts or evidence of what protesters do, or for that matter what law-enforcement did.
They both recited rhetoric that Bob Fletcher and St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington made about arrests and raids.. I couldn't believe it. He might as well just said "they did a Heck of a Job Brownie". It was clearly a waste of 100,000 of tax payers money.
While there you could help but laugh out loud in disgust to their comments, or shout out. Maybe the video will pick that up. We had to be silenced several times but you have to remember we where not allowed to ask questions or have a representative make comments. Even Councilperson Thune did not ask any questions.

I would like to write more but I am too tired and disgusted. St. Paul really needs to find some better city leaders because these people do not care about civil rights, or that their city was used by the GOP, by Secret Service and Homeland Security to terrorize those who spoke out.


The St. Paul City Council website probably will have a video of the City Council meeting

[kickysnana]

1. Thanks for showing up on this terribly cold night.

St Paul has gone bad for sure.