thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 9/2/2008
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A large march got underway around 1 p.m. at the Minnesota capitol. Many in the group marched peacefully along the designated route, but not everyone followed the rules.
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... to protest the Republican Convention, with some demonstrators blocking thoroughfares, knocking over newspaper boxes and planters and in a few cases breaking windows.
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A larger group of about 200 protesters dressed in black roamed through the streets of downtown St. Paul, shouting and chanting and throwing street signs and concrete planters into the roads. Many of them wore black bandanas across their faces and some wore black balaclavas.
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