RNC '08 Report St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington reports back on policing during the RNC

1 hr 16 minute video from the St. Paul City Council feed.

This is a preliminary report based on information that the St. Paul Police Department has gathered. Assistant Police Chief Bostrom is working on a complete after action report.

Exactly one hour into this video, Council Member David Thune begins a discussion with Harrington about the "activists stockpiling urine and feces" rumors and how these applied to the raids.

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818 arrests total (716 by St. Paul Police Department and 103 by Minneapolis Police Department).

157 Felony, 51 Gross Misdemeanor, 508 Misdemeanor.

$69,000 in St. Paul Property damage.

0 admits to any hospitals with RNC related injuries.

2 non RNC related law suits.

1-2 RNC related Internal Affairs complaints (40 packets requested).

26 data requests.

Harrington claims:

"One of the things media folks said is on Day One, when several of the reporters got assaulted and attacked by the rioters, one of the things that happened was they stopped wearing media identification, which really complicated because now how is a cop supposed to know who is a reporter, apart from the fact that you've got a $50,000 camera. That was probably a sign but aside from that it was really difficult to determine who was media and who was not in a lot of the mass arrests situations. It was very very problematic."

This article was printed out from the RNC '08 Report website found at http://rnc08report.org. The RNC '08 Report is a citizen's archive of media reports, government documents, and other resources relating to the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN. The source material posted on this website will ultimately used to compile a truly independent, publicly available, citizen's report on what happened during the 2008 RNC. Why we deserve your support.

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