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First Arrest of RNC Protesters Reported

Posted on | August 26, 2012 | 26 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Reported by Kameel Stanley of the St. Petersburg Times:

Two suspected protesters were arrested after they were found playing with a BB gun atop a downtown parking garage, authorities said.
They are the first arrests in the city tied to the Republican National Convention, which kicks off tonight with a huge welcome party at Tropicana Field.
St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz said the agency got a call late Thursday from a concerned citizen who saw people on the roof of a parking garage at 100 Second Ave. S.
“That unto itself is odd,” Puetz said.
The caller also claimed to have seen the people playing with a gun.
Officers found two men and a female teen runaway hanging out.
They also found several items indicating the people were protesters, including antigovernment T-shirts and a backpack stuffed with a large machete, a pocketknife, tin snips and a pry tool, Puetz said.
The backpack belonged to Trevor Swanson, 19, of St. Petersburg, who is prohibited from having weapons because of a domestic violence injunction.
Police said the other man on the roof, Kyle Shaw, 21, had a BB gun in his waistband.
Authorities also found bandanas, black gloves and a putty that Swanson admitted was for securing a mask, police said.
Shaw, listed as a transient from Largo, was arrested on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Swanson was arrested on charges of possessing burglary tools, violating an injunction and being a delinquent felon in possession of a weapon.

Hmmm. A 19-year-old with a domestic violence injunction? Burglary tools? Gloves? A machete? Weird stuff, and undoubtedly the tip of a very large iceberg of weirdness among the anarchists and “Occupy” scum expected to descend on Tampa this week.

UPDATE: Brandon Darby reports that the anti-RNC protesters have “a coms group that is trying to shut down the EMS communications structure for the city. That’s really happening. They’re trying to shut down the communications structure for the city for law enforcement and emergency medical personnel.”

Isn’t that wonderful? With a hurricane approaching Tampa — and as Bryan Preston notes, there are already trees down in Miami — the Left is trying to shut down 911!

Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

Comments

26 Responses to “First Arrest of RNC Protesters Reported”

  1. Dandapani
    August 26th, 2012 @ 11:44 am

    And so it begins…

  2. JeffS
    August 26th, 2012 @ 12:00 pm

    The “anarchist” philosophy: making a difference by being an asshole.

  3. JeffS
    August 26th, 2012 @ 12:12 pm

    RE update: So the lefties are protesting against Hurricane Isaac, huh?

    /sarcasm

    I’d like to call them idiots, but they are just tools who think they are making a difference.

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  5. Dianna Deeley
    August 26th, 2012 @ 12:41 pm

    I think the 19 year old had the “tools of his trade” along – that sounds like a burglar’s bag.

    Of course, all of it translates very well to property damage and doing harm to the unfortunate attendees of the convention, too.

  6. McGehee
    August 26th, 2012 @ 1:15 pm

    ‘Tis the spammer again.

  7. Russ Emerson
    August 26th, 2012 @ 1:33 pm

    The French expression “pour encourager les autres” springs suddenly to mind.

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  9. Cube
    August 26th, 2012 @ 3:45 pm

    With a hurricane approaching Tampa … the Left is trying to shut down 911!

    Anyone still believe the Left cares about people or the environment?

    Will this make the news anywhere but here? #occupytruth

  10. Adjoran
    August 26th, 2012 @ 5:14 pm

    These folks are dangerous terrorists and should be shot on sight.

  11. postaldog
    August 26th, 2012 @ 5:45 pm

    Small correction — it’s the Tampa Bay Times now. And said paper has been running a full slate of front page articles for weeks on how and where to protest, fully supporting the nonsense that these occupy clowns are planning.

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  13. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    August 26th, 2012 @ 7:09 pm

    Even with this impending threat of bb gun wielding anarchists, Stacy and Ali are getting ready to par-tay!

  14. Bob Belvedere
    August 26th, 2012 @ 8:01 pm

    Burglary tools, of course, have many uses.
    I believe Stalin, in his younger days, was caught with his own set.

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  17. Adjoran
    August 27th, 2012 @ 4:28 am

    Yeah, we used to call it “The Petrograd Times” back in the day.

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  20. Saul
    August 27th, 2012 @ 8:45 am

    St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz said the agency got a call late Thursday from a concerned citizen who saw people on the roof of a parking garage at 100 Second Ave. S.
    “That unto itself is odd,” Puetz said.

    This particular parking garage has no roof. The top level is a exposed parking deck. It’s odd for the police to say it’s odd for there to be people in a parking garage.
    Stop reading the news in your room and hit the streets for some reporting.

  21. Gremm
    August 27th, 2012 @ 9:37 am

    You’d think the anarchists would agree with the Republican party’s anti-government message.

  22. Michael P.
    August 27th, 2012 @ 11:35 am

    A machete? Gimme a break. They should be staging open carry marches by the thousands with assault weapons and rifles. Guarantee the police would think twice about swinging batons and launching tear gas grenades.

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