A year after St. Paul police rounded up and arrested over 200 people

who were planning to protest the Republican National Convention - but

hadn't actually done anything yet - 27 plaintiffs filed a class action

suit against the city on behalf of all those arrested. Police officers

used pepper spray, non-lethal ammunition and horses against the

protesters, none of whom was convicted of anything except not liking

Republicans.

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"The city has admitted that people were arrested preemptively in

this park," said attorney Robert Kolstad. "They arrested them because they

were afraid of what they might do in the future, which is a dangerous

path for our government to take. Taken to its logical conclusion, what

it means is that the government now believes that they can come to our

houses and arrest us because they think that we might do something

wrong. Our constitution simply doesn't permit that."