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Peace team members arrested at Republican National Convention
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The Arab American News
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September 6, 2008
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Late Wednesday, September 3, while working to keep people out of harm's way outside a concert at the Republican National Convention, Rev. Peter Dougherty of Michigan Peace Team and three members of the Minnesota Peace Team were arrested, handcuffed, detained for almost five hours, and presented with citations along with approximately 150 concert goers and other nonviolent bystanders. The charge is "unlawful assembly."
The arrests occurred at approximately 11 pm (CST) near the Target Center Basketball Arena in Minneapolis, where Rage .Against the Machine was performing. Rev. Dougherty and the other peace team members were at that location to help ensure that people would be ...