September 2007
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THIS Thursday, Friday and Saturday (Sept 6, 7 & 8) from 9am - 4pm in Lakeville, my family is having the biggest end-of-season garage sale you have ever seen! That's right, we've been packing things away for years, and NOW is the time it all has to go.
Included in the sale, TONS of: furniture, 3 computers, bicycles, households, clothes (including plus sizes), linens, books, movies, CDs, toys (including barbies), games, tools, pet supplies, antiques, and lots of knicknacks!
You don't want to miss this sale. Its NOT the kind you drive by once and only see baby stuff in the garage. We will have the place packed AND the driveway will be overflowing!
Location: 17111 Jackson Trail, Lakeville (follow the signs off Ipava and 170th!). Feel free to comment if you have questions.
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Included in the sale, TONS of: furniture, 3 computers, bicycles, households, clothes (including plus sizes), linens, books, movies, CDs, toys (including barbies), games, tools, pet supplies, antiques, and lots of knicknacks!
You don't want to miss this sale. Its NOT the kind you drive by once and only see baby stuff in the garage. We will have the place packed AND the driveway will be overflowing!
Location: 17111 Jackson Trail, Lakeville (follow the signs off Ipava and 170th!). Feel free to comment if you have questions.
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2007-09-03 16:42:04
I'm looking to spend a couple Saturdays a month volunteering for a worthy cause. Any suggestions for organizations to contact?
2007-09-01 06:11:50
First a group of bikers were shouting "let him go" or more chanting it to what seemed like a cop arresting someone on a bike. I thought, huh?
Then the cops started to show up quickly and ran after bikers. It was something like 50 cop cars. The bikers were just milling around, seemingly blocked by someone behind a tree. I saw the cops spraying mace or something at bikers as they attempted to leave, but had other bikers in their way.
The cops seemed to be going a little high on the overkill, some bikers refused to completely leave the area, but kept their distance from the spray of the cops who basically stood around looking like they were excited about beating up some radicals. They just kept coming and coming, what, there isn't anything else going on in the city besides a group of bikers?
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2007/08/mpls_police_adm.php#more
MPLS police administer tear gas, beat down cyclists in Loring Park
Filed under: General Archive
Tear gas, wailing police sirens, and the rumbling of overhead helicopters permeated the air earlier tonight in Loring Park as dozens of police officers descended on a group of cyclists.
At around 7 p.m., police cars were trailing a large group of cyclists along LaSalle Avenue. The cyclists were taking part in Critical Mass--a monthly bike ride undertook by cyclists the world over to "assert cyclists' right to the road"--when things turned ugly.
According to witnesses, an unmarked maroon police car sped ahead of the others and smashed purposefully into a cyclist, spilling him onto the road who, in turn, took down another cyclist.
"After that, the other police cars swarmed around the sides and ordered everyone to get off their bikes or they'd be maced," said Glenda Sheppard, who lives directly adjacent to the scene on the corner of LaSalle and Grand. "Then they attacked the bikers."
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing," said cyclist Saba Nere, her eyes still red from the tear gas. "They threw people to the ground. A girl next to me was being tasered. One guy was being beaten. There was blood running down his face."
Just what elicited the use of force remains unclear at this point. Police at the scene declined comment and the MPD officer on call tonight did not immediately return phone calls. Whatever the case, both witnesses and cyclists were visibly shaken in the aftermath. And a bit angry.
"They were beating people indiscriminately," said nearby resident Paula Hare, shaking his head. "I've seen stuff like this before. It was a 100 percent set-up."
When Nere--who was toward the front of the group--asked an officer what was going on, she says she was greeted with a terse warning. "You better get on your bike, sweetheart." According to Nere, when a male friend of hers took issue with the comment the officer threw him down to the pavement and mased him. He was presumably arrested.
All seven of the witnesses who talked to City Pages said there was no threat of violence or taunts on behalf of the cyclists prior to police action.
"It was like a war down here," said local resident Frank Grissom. "Except I didn't see any rioting."
More on this as the story unfolds.
Posted by Matt Snyders at August 31, 2007 8:14 PM
Then the cops started to show up quickly and ran after bikers. It was something like 50 cop cars. The bikers were just milling around, seemingly blocked by someone behind a tree. I saw the cops spraying mace or something at bikers as they attempted to leave, but had other bikers in their way.
The cops seemed to be going a little high on the overkill, some bikers refused to completely leave the area, but kept their distance from the spray of the cops who basically stood around looking like they were excited about beating up some radicals. They just kept coming and coming, what, there isn't anything else going on in the city besides a group of bikers?
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2007/08/mpls_police_adm.php#more
MPLS police administer tear gas, beat down cyclists in Loring Park
Filed under: General Archive
Tear gas, wailing police sirens, and the rumbling of overhead helicopters permeated the air earlier tonight in Loring Park as dozens of police officers descended on a group of cyclists.
At around 7 p.m., police cars were trailing a large group of cyclists along LaSalle Avenue. The cyclists were taking part in Critical Mass--a monthly bike ride undertook by cyclists the world over to "assert cyclists' right to the road"--when things turned ugly.
According to witnesses, an unmarked maroon police car sped ahead of the others and smashed purposefully into a cyclist, spilling him onto the road who, in turn, took down another cyclist.
"After that, the other police cars swarmed around the sides and ordered everyone to get off their bikes or they'd be maced," said Glenda Sheppard, who lives directly adjacent to the scene on the corner of LaSalle and Grand. "Then they attacked the bikers."
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing," said cyclist Saba Nere, her eyes still red from the tear gas. "They threw people to the ground. A girl next to me was being tasered. One guy was being beaten. There was blood running down his face."
Just what elicited the use of force remains unclear at this point. Police at the scene declined comment and the MPD officer on call tonight did not immediately return phone calls. Whatever the case, both witnesses and cyclists were visibly shaken in the aftermath. And a bit angry.
"They were beating people indiscriminately," said nearby resident Paula Hare, shaking his head. "I've seen stuff like this before. It was a 100 percent set-up."
When Nere--who was toward the front of the group--asked an officer what was going on, she says she was greeted with a terse warning. "You better get on your bike, sweetheart." According to Nere, when a male friend of hers took issue with the comment the officer threw him down to the pavement and mased him. He was presumably arrested.
All seven of the witnesses who talked to City Pages said there was no threat of violence or taunts on behalf of the cyclists prior to police action.
"It was like a war down here," said local resident Frank Grissom. "Except I didn't see any rioting."
More on this as the story unfolds.
Posted by Matt Snyders at August 31, 2007 8:14 PM
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