Protesters Shut Down Interstate 94 Near Downtown St. Paul, Minnesota

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: ABC NEWS

URL: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/protesters-shut-interstate-94-downtown-st-paul-40468443

By SADIE GURMAN AND SKIP FOREMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PAUL, Minn


Police arrested about 100 people in the Minnesota capital of St. Paul during protests over the recent police killings of black men, including one in a nearby suburb.

Authorities said 21 St. Paul officers and six state troopers were hurt during the fracas late Saturday and early Sunday.

Police used smoke bombs to clear more than 200 people blocking Interstate 94, the main highway in and out of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Protesters pelted police in riot gear with rocks, bottles, firecrackers and other objects, and they refused to get off the highway, prompting officers in riot gear to move in just after midnight.

Roughly half of the arrests happened during that standoff. Most of the others happened early Sunday in another part of St. Paul.

Police Chief Todd Axtell called the violence against officers "a disgrace."

In Louisiana, meanwhile, prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson was among several people who were arrested Saturday night during protests in Baton Rouge. They were calling for justice following last week's fatal shooting of a 37-year-old black man, Alton Sterling, by two white police officers.

In Minnesota, Mike Martin, who wore a guitar on his back and said he was trying to promote peace, was pepper sprayed by an officer on a pedestrian bridge overlooking the interstate. He said he was trying to move the crowd along and keep the peace.

"I guess I wasn't moving fast enough for him," said Martin, who said the officer was six feet away when he sprayed him without warning. "He just got it out and bam, I saw a cloud. It's burning pretty bad."

A leader on a loudspeaker urged the group to march to the governor's mansion, where protesters have been gathering since the fatal police shooting Wednesday of a black driver, Philando Castile, in the suburb of Falcon Heights. The 32-year-old school cafeteria supervisor told officers during a traffic stop that he had a gun in the car and a permit to use it, and one of them shot him when he reached for his wallet, according to his girlfriend, who live-streamed video of the immediate aftermath on Facebook.

Tyree Johnson, a protester who said he was Castile's cousin, said officers on the highway fired pellets and gas in his direction.

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[SirLinksALot]

[geronl]

giant stinkbombs and anti-riot microwave beams would disperse a crowd

[Smokin Joe]

giant stinkbombs and anti-riot microwave beams would disperse a crowd

Earplugs (for the LEOs) and the fabled "brown note" for the protesters and press...would move them along.

[TomSea]

Arrested and Charged; 46 names.  One of the comments infers a lot of these folks are not black and I can certainly see that.  A few out-of-towners,  interesting that one was from Berkley.

Okay, they are posting the mugshots, one can tell for themselves. Charges are things like Nuisance and what have you.


   

Charles Aubart, 21, Minneapolis;
    Katherine Elizabeth Baker, 25, Minneapolis;
    Luna Jaye Bakerian-Devane, 21, Minneapolis;
    Lia N. Bentley, 24, Minneapolis;
    Jeffrey Berger, 74, Minneapolis;
    Katherine Elizabeth Bisanz, 32, Minneapolis;
    Linda Clare Breitag, 58, Minneapolis;
    Sophia Ray Breitag-Makeever, 18, Minneapolis;
    Adam Ross Burch, 28, Minneapolis;
    Nautika Ashunti Burroughs, 18, St. Paul;
    Charlotte Louise Colantti, 20, Minneapolis;
    Jane Jennifer Conrad, 54, Richmond, Minn.;
    Matthew August Cousin, 21, St. Paul;
    Emmett James Doyle, 25, St. Paul;
    Annika Maria Gifford Brothers, 39, Minneapolis;
    Zinashwork Gjerdrum, 39, St. Paul;
    Sophie A. Guterl, 23, Montclair N.J.;
    Kathleen Havelin, 55, St. Paul;
    Brian Patrick Heilman, 33, St. Paul;
    Kestrel Leah Feiner Homer, 32, Minneapolis;
    Max Zimmerman Hornstein, 21, Minneapolis;
    Casey Peyton Hudek, 29, Minneapolis;
    Sophie M. Keane, 21, Columbia, Md.;
    Brendon Michael Kelly, 38, Minneapolis;
    Isabelle Mae Kielas-Jensen, 18, St. Paul;
    Zachary J. Kolodziej, 21, Minneapolis;
    Nils Cameron Larsson, 21, St. Paul;
    Britton Claire Mikkelsen, 20, St. Cloud;
    Aamina Abdirashid Mohamed, 61, St. Paul;
    Jesse Koller Mortenson, 33, St. Paul;
    Rachel Lauren Mueller, 27, Minneapolis;
    Nimisha Nagalia, 23, Minneapolis;
    Nell Robinnson Pierce, 26, Minneapolis;
    Kathleen Ann Roche, 26, Minneapolis;
    Madison Elyse Rubenstein, 26, Minneapolis;
    Edith Sargun, 37, Minneapolis;
    Julia Ann Schneider, 27, Berkeley, Calif.;
    Erica Seltzer-Schultz, 26, Minneapolis;
    Brian Paul Shea, 38, Minneapolis;
    Sequoia Paloma Frias Smith, 19, Roseville;
    Elise Archbold Sommers, 20, Minneapolis;
    Carolyn Maureen Szczepanski, 25, St. Paul;
    Aaron Benjamine Tovo, 51, Minneapolis;
    Peter Breen Vankoughnett, 26, Minneapolis;
    Lucinda H. Wasserburg, 23, Minneapolis;
    Brittany Alexander Wirth-Petrik, 27, Lino Lakes.

http://www.twincities.com/2016/07/11/st-paul-interstate-94-i94-protest-charges-philando-castile/

[Smokin Joe]

About 40 of those look like either useful idiots or fellow travelers. Maybe paid operatives, maybe out proving they aren't raysis by bein' down with the cause, or maybe just fool enough to believe everything they hear in the media.