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Written by Lassie
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 07:19 |
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 A taste of the action to come this September: protesters under the Project to Stop The War bound themselves together (one attached herself to a sign with a bike lock) and blocked access at ATK in Anoka Wednesday. After protesters ignored a warning from police to leave, the arrests began. From ABC Newspapers:
At 7:50 a.m., eight members of the Project lined up, handcuffed themselves together, wrapped their outstretched arms in PVC tubes wrapped in black electrician’s tape and lay down on the asphalt road.
Personnel from Anoka and Coon Rapids police departments, the Coon Rapids Fire Department, and the Anoka-Champlin Fire Department responded to the incident.
“If you choose not to disperse you will be under arrest,” police warned the protesters.
By 8:44 a.m., protesters failed to move and police responded.
“At this point, you are all under arrest,” a police officer announced.
Then work began to remove the PVC tubes and release the protesters from their self-induced bondage.
PSWI members at each end of the lay-down had been secured to a metal Federal Cartridge sign on one end and a sand barrel on the other.
Police and fire personnel used scissors, wire cutters and, finally, a Sawzall to release the eight protesters who were then escorted to squad cars and taken to the Anoka County Jail.
Nine were arrested, one of which was a juvenile. Which leads me to ask, who is teaching these kids to become jail bait for their cause?
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