Minneapolis/St. Paul has fast become a police state. Glenn Greenwald, who’s been covering the crackdown for Salon, writes that on the eve of the Republican National Convention, “St. Paul was the most militarized I have ever seen an American city be, even more so than Manhattan in the week of 9/11—with troops of federal, state and local law enforcement agents marching around with riot gear, machine guns, and tear gas canisters.” In this video from the UpTake, rubber bullets and tear gas are used to disperse protesters.

A number of journalists and lawyers have also been arrested. Tonight on GRITtv we talk with Gena Berglund, the Legal Observer Program Coordinator for the Minnesota Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and Karen Greenberg, Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security. Stay tuned.