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More from http://www.theuptake.org. Sat. Aug 30, 2008. Saint Paul, MN Police Department raids a home at 591 Iglehart Avenue at gunpoint. The journalists include a contributing photojournalist with "Democracy Now", whose host Amy Goodman appears in this clip jumping a fence to question police officers.
This is part of a series of police actions on the eve of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
After several hours, all those detained were released. No arrests. No property was seized as result of the search warrant. The clip ends with an interview with homeowner Mike Whalen. At the start of the clip, a neighbor shouts to the media and onlookers that we could all come into her backyard to see the detained people held in the adjacent backyard.
Video by Chuck Tomlinson
More from http://www.theuptake.org. Sat. Aug 30, 2008. Saint Paul, MN Police Department raids a home at 591 Iglehart Avenue at gunpoint. The journalists include a contributing photojournalist with "Democracy Now", whose host Amy Goodman appears in this clip jumping a fence to question police officers.
This is part of a series of police actions on the eve of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
After several hours, all those detained were released. No arrests. No property was seized as result of the search warrant. The clip ends with an interview with homeowner Mike Whalen. At the start of the clip, a neighbor shouts to the media and onlookers that we could all come into her backyard to see the detained people held in the adjacent backyard.
Video by Chuck Tomlinson
That's a violation of the warrant system, the judge can be disrobed.
So they gave him a warrant that wasn't exactly for his house?
That's a violation of the warrant system, the judge can be disrobed.
He said he owns both sides of the duplex, so the property is his, and so the warrant seems valid (though it may be groundless, which is another problem all together) but the police who searched and detained people at the other address, seems to have done so without a legal warrant.
The breadth of the warrant bothers me as much as anything else, the taking of computers/cameras/cellphones for many people these days constitutes a blanket warrant to search all private and confidential records, the fact that these records exist on electronic devices should not in any way reduce the legal hoops required to access or confiscate them.
Oh wait.
http://www.mncourts.gov/?page=JudgeBio_v2&ID=30297
She's real. Here's her # (651) 266-8266
# for the courthouse.
Let's *promote knowledge of the craziness she's endorsing.
Mr. Monopoly is on the case. http://mistermonopoly.blogspot.com/2008/09/arrest-warrant-issued-for-judge-joanne.html
http://www.videosift.com/video/More-RNC-pre-emptive-police-raids-and-detaining-journalists
http://tc.indymedia.org/files/affadavit0903-sm.pdf
Umm.. I'm not familiar with MN law, but the landlord cannot consent for the police to search your apartment. There are probably laws about notification period for the landlord to enter the permises.
Regardless, you cannot enter the wrong address on a search warrant. That is the joke of it all, they got a warrant and don't even care that it is invalid. They don't care that it will all be thrown out in court. They know this ahead of time. The goal is intimidation and to seize property and computers. They can get another warrant for the information on the computers later after the see what they found. Or just pass it on to FBI/ DHS.