Although thousands of protesters are expected in downtown St. Paul for the Republican National Convention in early September, Walsh said the proposed purchase "is in no way related. It simply isn't."


wait - are they gonna taser the protesters or the Republicans?

I'm sure they'll get plenty of use at the RNC. I mean, jeezuz. Holding the RNC in a blue state? Long term, they'll get plenty of use in Frogtown, the East Side, Selby/Dale, Rice St, etc...

I work in downtown St. Paul, so I'm really hoping they won't taze me, bro'

Well, I guess I now have something to look forward to when I protest.

Weaver95: Although thousands of protesters are expected in downtown St. Paul for the Republican National Convention in early September, Walsh said the proposed purchase "is in no way related. It simply isn't."


wait - are they gonna taser the protesters or the Republicans?

I wondered this also. I'm not sure whether to be for or against this course of action.

"Hello, sir, I'm here on behalf of the John McCain presidential campaign..."
"I'm sorry, I plan to vote for Obama."
(taze)

The $210,000 purchase would be financed with money from drug seizures.

So the money they made depriving people of their right to ingest whatever the hell they want will be used to buy equipment that will likely help deprive people of their right to protest and free speech. La-and of the freeee!

Let's hope they're using them during sweeps of M/SP Airport restrooms prior to and during the convention.

"Ok, buddy, out of the stall."

"Don't taze me, bro!"

i think we are dew an explanation about this. i'm worried about what the police might due with those tazers. especially if they taze someone moist with the morning do... it might shock them worse than expected!

This is not good. I have hot plans for the convention (OK maybe notso hotso plans, I plan to avoid the convention so I'll be free to post bail for my kid and his friends). Tasing would add an extra element to things.
/Who's your lawyer and what does he do?

I live in Saint Paul, blocks from the convention. I am stocking up on beer and watching the antics from the safety of my window.

Weaver95: wait - are they gonna taser the protesters or the Republicans?

If they plan on tasering the Republicans...where do I send my check?

idsfa: I work in downtown St. Paul, so I'm really hoping they won't taze me, bro'

Wait, there's still people working in Downtown St. Paul?

Every time I've been over there, it's practically a ghost town.

/Minneapolitan

Weaver95: wait - are they gonna taser the protesters or the Republicans?

There just might be a bunch of Ron Paul Republicans at the RNC. So the answer is both.

The RNC seems to be acting like douches when they choose a city to use. For example; 2000-san diego, 2004-nyc and 2008 minn/st paul. All cities with very liberal reputations.

Is there a rovian strategy to to attempt to get as many non-white males in the audience?

/No city in the US should be closed to anyone, just there might be a whole bunch fewer problems with protesters in dallas, alanta or miami.

I dunno why they'd deny that it's for the convention. It's not like expecting a sudden increase in drunken brawls is a bad reason to have extra tasers on hand.

Ha protesting. You mine as well sit home and jack off.
Try bombing the fark out of the fascists and degenerates, it works much better.

Weaver95: wait - are they gonna taser the protesters or the Republicans?

I'm kind of hoping for both.

As long as they taze a buncha Republicans with 'em.

This is America. Take all that "participation in the political process" back to Europe where it came from. Here, patriotism means agreeing with the government. Speaking out gets you a tazerin'.

stiletto_the_wise: This is America. Take all that "participation in the political process" back to Europe where it came from. Here, patriotism means agreeing with the government. Speaking out gets you a tazerin'.

No, throwing bricks through windows and trying to charge into and disrupt others' participation in the political process, then screaming "HELP! FASCISM AND OPPRESSION!! POLICE BRUTALITY!!" when your ass gets slammed... is not "participating in the political process", it's grounds for a tazerin'.

If you stand in your little Kumbaya circle, blocking traffic, waving your little wastes of paper in the air with hyperbolic comparisons and screaming at passers by, that's perfectly fine.

BoBoTheMonkeyBoy: This is not good. I have hot plans for the convention (OK maybe notso hotso plans, I plan to avoid the convention so I'll be free to post bail for my kid and his friends). Tasing would add an extra element to things.
/Who's your lawyer and what does he do?

dad!

Tazers? Tazers are ineffective at crowd control, unless they are buying the new automatic shotgun tazer (Video) Nice to see that someone has also mounted that on an unmanned drone.

Congregating in a non free-speech zone citizen? I think not, try our sonic weaponry, stun grenades, or invisible tear gas.

In NYC they took all the protesters to a asbestos filled, condemmed garage modified to a prison camp for 3 days. I wonder where they will put them in St. Paul?

Falcc: I wondered this also. I'm not sure whether to be for or against this course of action.

Great...I guess I'll be getting tasered while carrying my "Uniting Folks In America" sign...

/Other side will be "So long and thanks for all the debt".

Pasted wrong link, check here to meet your future tazer shotgun overlord.

margarito bandito: I am stocking up on beer and watching the antics from the safety of my window.

Fark Party??

/I'll bring the chips

SemperLieSuckah: stiletto_the_wise: This is America. Take all that "participation in the political process" back to Europe where it came from. Here, patriotism means agreeing with the government. Speaking out gets you a tazerin'.

No, throwing bricks through windows and trying to charge into and disrupt others' participation in the political process, then screaming "HELP! FASCISM AND OPPRESSION!! POLICE BRUTALITY!!" when your ass gets slammed... is not "participating in the political process", it's grounds for a tazerin'.



If you stand in your little Kumbaya circle, blocking traffic, waving your little wastes of paper in the air with hyperbolic comparisons and screaming at passers by, that's perfectly fine.

Who said anything about tossing bricks? I was at the RNC and saw whole blocks of people rounded up with snow fences and then shipped out, none of them were rioting. Then when the police horses started to put the squeeze on them, some people ducked under or around the horses and were pepper sprayed in the face. I saw an old lady catch a cops elbow straight to the nose, and then the cop yelled at her for being in his way.

SemperLieSuckah: Since I already fed the troll I may as well play with him. I suppose in your mind the police never try to stir up violence so that the rest of their buddies have a reason to engage the crowd. No such thing as an undercover cop posing as an anarchist tossing bricks to get the crowd riled up I suppose? Never happens right?

THE OCO SIAD
"In NYC they took all the protesters to a asbestos filled, condemmed garage modified to a prison camp for 3 days. I wonder where they will put them in St. Paul?"

The Pizza Hut on White Bear Ave.

The_OcO: Since I already fed the troll I may as well play with him. I suppose in your mind the police never try to stir up violence so that the rest of their buddies have a reason to engage the crowd. No such thing as an undercover cop posing as an anarchist tossing bricks to get the crowd riled up I suppose? Never happens right?

I dunno, but the burden of proof is on you.

Since we're in Imaginationland coming up with conspiracy theories: No such thing as an anarchist with an insidious plot to go around poking cops with needles full of AIDS, never happens right? Since i thought it up, it must be plausible. And since it's plausible, we must assume it is so. KILL ALL PROTESTING ANARCHISTS...

Im all for tazing republicans...

The_OcO: I saw an old lady catch a cops elbow straight to the nose, and then the cop yelled at her for being in his way.

What the hell was an old lady doing intermingling with the police in riot gear? I call bullshiat on your entire statement.

It wouldn't be the first time a protesting jackass makes up a story to frame police, never happens right?

Enemabag Jones: The RNC seems to be acting like douches when they choose a city to use. For example; 2000-san diego, 2004-nyc and 2008 minn/st paul. All cities with very liberal reputations.

Is there a rovian strategy to to attempt to get as many non-white males in the audience?

/No city in the US should be closed to anyone, just there might be a whole bunch fewer problems with protesters in dallas, alanta or miami.

NYC was due to 9/11 and (helping the economy after). Police did a great job. Atlanta? Miami? less liberal? no way. Most major cities wil lbe liberal and they tend to have facilities to acomodate visitors so that is why they tend to be in cities as mentioned before. Also, I think it is a generic bid process in which the cities participate.

SemperLieSuckah- Here is 1 case, followed with proof. Do you have any for your AIDS claim?

Provocateur cops Exposed (new window) Notice how they undercover cops are holding big rocks

Police Admit To Undercover Protesters At Montebello Summit (new window)

generaltimmy: NYC was due to 9/11 and (helping the economy after). Police did a great job. Atlanta? Miami? less liberal? no way. Most major cities wil lbe liberal and they tend to have facilities to acomodate visitors so that is why they tend to be in cities as mentioned before. Also, I think it is a generic bid process in which the cities participate.

I would think the RNC hurt the citiy's economy. It also hurt the city's spirit a little to see the RNC using us like that. I think Kerry beat bush like 90% - 10% in NYC. I would agree that yes, the police got a huge amount of money to handle the crowd, but half of the city was shut down just from traffic, let alone the areas affected by the crowds. No, the RNC was there to capitalize on 9/11, not to "help the city recover". How does making the center of your city a military zone with restricted access to citizens help it recover from a terrorist attack?

SemperLieSuckah: What the hell was an old lady doing intermingling with the police in riot gear? I call bullshiat on your entire statement.

It wouldn't be the first time a protesting jackass makes up a story to frame police, never happens right?

She was protesting the RNC using 9/11 for their own gain. She had no intentions of "mingling with police" and I didn't say the cop tried to elbow her, I was just pointing out that while protestors were being corralled, lots of people were trying to rush past them to not get snagged, and she caught a random elbow. Just pointing out how the police take calm situations and make them frantic for their own purposes. Have a calm protest you want to marginalize to make look like radicals? Provoke them to violence, air it on tv, then you can call them "left wing radicals" instead of "peaceful protestors"

Vice also plans to double their presence in public restrooms.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble in designated 'Free Speech Zones' etablished miles from anywhere', and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

FTFY

Actually, St. Paul cops have been asking for these for quite some time now, for the exact reason in the article - so that every cop (or at least every car) has one.

If they're just tasing Republicans, I'm still waiting to hear what the problem is.

/probably taking a wide stance on the issue

check here to meet your future tazer shotgun overlord.

I for one welcome our new tazer shotgun overlords.

Liked the way they called themselves "less lethal technology" at the end there. Used to be "non lethal" but ya know...

quatchi: check here to meet your future tazer shotgun overlord.

I for one welcome our new tazer shotgun overlords.

Liked the way they called themselves "less lethal technology" at the end there. Used to be "non lethal" but ya know...

Glad I wasn't the only one to notice that. If you look around there is another video of one of those mounted on a rc helicopter raining hell. Tazer has a contract out now to get a crazy starwars drone looking model out on the streets next year as well.

Just what we need, unmanned aerial drones shooting electronic weapons at us. I'm sure a flying automatic shotgun will be very precise with its targets.

SemperLieSuckah- Just gonna go ahead and say pwn3d now.

Nothing to see here. Taser orders are up worldwide.

The French & German police are ordering them by the shiatload.

InsaneChemE: Well, I guess I now have something to look forward to when I protest.

OOH, wanna get arrested together? We might make the main page!

St. Paul Police want to buy 234 more tasers. But it has nothing to due DO with the upcoming Republican Convention. Honest


Due not due that again Subby.

Tase'em all. (new window)

The_OcO:

Cops go undercover ALL THE TIME to try to keep a finger on the pulse of the crowd. THIS IS COMMON. They were just acting like the protesters in that situation, there is nothing to indicate that this particular incident is special. They were just doing what anti-globalization/anarchist protesters do: taunt cops.

So no, not pwned.

P.S.: the "9/11 was a hoax!" billboard on the front of the video makes my eyes roll right away...