Protesters in St. Paul are being tear gassed. What does it look like? Well, in the YouTube age, citizen journalists come close to the action to find out and then get lumped into the crowd when special tactics are used.
In the above link, Marta and Brian, the two-person crew of the vlog Gnooze (the G is silent - www.Gnooze.com) visit the protests in St. Paul on Tuesday night. They are taking shots of the crowd when the gas starts to go off. They report to have heard no official announcement from the St. Paul police, just a word of mouth as people in the front of the protest whispered back into the crowd reports of police readying canisters.
If you've ever wondered what it might look like to have lines of authorities fire tear gas and flash grenades at you in a dark and unfamiliar city, click on the link. While the footage is disturbing, that fact that there is actually footage speaks worlds of citizen journalism.
If you wanted to see what the protests at the RNC look like, the people at The UpTake Video have been posting several snapshot videos from St. Paul. (www.TheUpTake.com)
Here's a video of some of the people who marched from the Capitol to the Convention site on Day One:
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