Photo essay of GOP Convention
Thursday, September 11, 2008
The following images are a photo essay shot by correspondent Wayne Anderson
on Sept. 1, 2008 outside the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Riot police gear up for confronta-tion with pro-testers
Militant signals to back off!
Jews for Jesus stand with another kind of message
I will be heard!
A ubiquitous sentiment
Security in the park
Young anarchists get ready to rumble and get tear gassed
Protesters march along an “illegal” route defying city ordinances
Raghida Dergham, famous and lovely columnist for Al Hayat Arabic newspaper
One of many Mardi gras-style pageants on display
Code Pink granny
“Gender is a concept.”
Self-proclaimed drag queen
Wonder...
Police and night stick ready to crack down for the law.
Media, protesters and police converge in a common goal
Police prepare for peace
The First Amendment
Political “couple” President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain
You’re all under arrest!
America is watching
Patriotic protester photographs police
Minneapolis mounted police
Paramilitary support
Peace through violence
Street debate with MSNBC star Joe Scarborough
“The ACLU supports you!”
We’re ready people
The difference between a mom and a cop: a gas mask
Protester woman shielded after posing as NBC reporter to police
The new emerging conspiracy theory: "Bush killed Wellstone"
US Coast Guard guarding from the Mississippi River
Muscle and jail-house tats
Obama at the RNC
One by one, protesters detained--and later released
Correspondent Wayne Anderson with Sen. John McCain again, on Sept. 1, 2008 at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. The first time they “met” was in Baghdad on July 4, 2007.
