Occupy Minnesota:WTF? Cops picking up sober Occupiers and Drugging them for "Training"???

[kpete]

Last edited Thu May 3, 2012, 03:49 PM - Edit history (1)

THU MAY 03, 2012 AT 10:59 AM PDT
Occupy Minnesota:WTF? Cops picking up sober Occupiers and Drugging them for "Training"
byHorace Boothroyd IIIFollowforOccupy Wall Street

&feature=player_embedded

Video documentation by local activists and independent media shows that police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit drugs and provided other incentives to take the drugs. The Occupy movement, present at Peavey Plaza since April 7th, appears to be targeted as impaired people are dropped off at the Plaza, and others say they've been rewarded for offering to snitch on the movement.

Local independent media activists and members of Communities United Against Police Brutality began investigating police conduct around the Plaza after witnessing police dropping off impaired people at the plaza and hearing rumors that they were offering people drugs. We videotaped police conduct and interviewed participants, learning some very disturbing information about the DRE program.

Officers stated on record the DRE program, run by the Minnesota State Patrol, has no Institutional Review Board or independent oversight. They agreed no ambulances or EMTs were on site at the Richfield MnDOT facility near the airport where most subjects were taken. Multiple times, participants left Peavey Plaza sober, returned intoxicated, and said they'd been given free drugs by law enforcement. We documented on more than one occasion, someone being told they were sober by one officer, and then picked up by a different officer, and returning intoxicated.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/03/1088516/-Occupy-Minnesota-WTF-Cops-picking-up-sober-Occupiers-and-Drugging-them-for-Training-

(i have NO idea wtf THIS is???!!!)


-------------------------
Minnesota police giving Peavey Plaza Occupy-ers drugs as part of impairment study, report says
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/05/minnesota_police_giving_peavy_plaza_occupy-ers_drugs_as_part_of_impairment_study_report_says_video.php

[Justice wanted]

1. sounds to me like local and state officials are taking a cue from the FBI. "Creating" Drug problems

among occupy movement to more arrest and discredit the movement. Remember the Gas line pipe Bombers and the Pizza delivery attackers?


FBI encouraged the behavior than arrested these men calling them terrorists and showing OH we still need to worry about terrorists.

[arcane1]

2. How utterly stupid must one be to get in a cop car and accept drugs from them?

THAT is the real WTF aspect to this!

[backscatter712]

3. In Denver, they were dropping mental patients at the Occupy Denver camp.

Just driving them up in a van and dropping them off. Patients from Denver Mental Health, probably supposed to be treated for addiction or other mental illnesses, dumped on Occupy Denver.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. Think they are collecting evidence now for an arrest later?

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

5. some info posted yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002638141

[Gold Metal Flake]

6. Pro Tip: Don't take drugs from cops.

[Blue_Tires]

7. isn't this, like, you know...goddamned illegal??