Protesters

According to the Strib, some 200 protesters were arrested today in St Paul. I'm sure that the vast majority of them were good decent people who just wanted to voice their opinion and show up to be counted. I probably didn't agree with them but I certainly want to let them speak their piece. As to the people who were there only to disrupt a lawful gathering, frankly they're jerks. I sincerely hope that they spend the rest of the week in jail, far away from civilized folks.
In a related article, Ramsey county conducted a raid on Saturday aimed at a disrupting an anarchist group that wanted to shut down St Paul. From the article:

On Saturday afternoon, he [Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher] displayed a number of the confiscated items: a gun, throwing knives, a bow and arrows, flammable liquids, paint, slingshots, rocks...

Ok, maybe suspicious but not necessarily anything wrong.

...and buckets of urine.

That's where you lose me.

"We know these things were going to be used as weapons," Fletcher said, a charge protesters and their advocates vigorously disputed.

Vigorously disputed. Seriously? Any guesses as to the explanation for the 'buckets of urine'? How charming is that, they were prepared to soak the police or the delegates, all in the name of free speech.
As I said, jail em and keep them away from civilized folks.