UPDATE: Six arrests….Tea Party Patriots: Carnahan, St Louis: Constituents locked out of town hall while SEIU let in?
Oh lookee here at the PostDispatch update, one of their reporters was arrested…
…She also saw Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman, who was reporting on the event and shooting video for stltoday.com. He was standing on a sidewalk, taking video.
As she photographed everything, Majors said she heard Wagman yell her name and say that he was being arrested. She turned and saw he had been handcuffed and was being put in the back of a squad car. The officer said Wagman had been interfering, Majors said….
Update from Gateway Pundit with video. Arrests and an assault. Can’t you feel the hopeychangey in the air tonight?
The Post-Dispatch reported:
St. Louis County police say six people were arrested. Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. Carnahan was gone when the ruckus started.
Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.
“It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.
The shenanigans continue…
Via Gateway Pundit:
Over 1,000 St. Louis Tea Party Taxpayers showed up to attend the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in South St. Louis.
They were Locked Out!
But… The Carnahah staff was sneaking in SIEU members in the side door marked “handicapped.”
After being locked out, the patriots broke into song:
Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft at St. Louis Tax Day Tea Party
Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft spoke at the Tax Day Tea Party in St. Louis, Missouri on April 15, 2009.10,000 protesters turned out at the protest.
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