If you’re hanging around this Labor Day weekend anticipating all of the Republican National Convention (RNC) stories of protests and convention intrigue that’ll be covered by the local and national media next week, you need to be aware of the stories unfolding right now, covered by The Uptake using Qik, live streaming mobile phone video.
The UpTake is a media and technology services organization dedicated to advancing democracy through citizen journalism (more here) and I’ve only connected with Chuck Olsen (of Minnesota Stories vlogging fame and blogger at blogumentary), but while at Costco this afternoon I looked at the Twitter client on my iPhone and saw that “@Chuckumentary” (Olsen’s Twitter name) was heading over to 951 Iglehart Ave in St. Paul since the fifth raid was underway and 10 police were on site…and he was going to try and cover it live.
I proceeded to watch him interview the woman you see at the bottom of the screengrab. She talked about the warrant (issued for the wrong side of the duplex) and that police entered that side and broke through the attic to perform a search at the other address…. [Read More…]
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