There are no words to describe this disgusting public policy employed by Minnesota’s Public Safety department AND the Minnesota’s State Police. The police are chauffeuring kids to an airport hangar, giving them all the marijuana they want to smoke, a pipe to smoke the crap in and then dropping them off at an Occupy camp STONED OUT OF THEIR MINDS!

Let me see if I have this straight. We have a so-called war on drugs…pppffftttt…but the cops in Minnesota, and apparently in other states across the US are picking kids up, driving them to an isolated location, providing them with as much pot as they can smoke, providing the pipe to smoke it in and then dropping them off at a nearby Occupy camp. SERIOUSLY??? What in the hell is wrong with these people? The State Police? The state of Minnesota?

MK Occupy Minnesota: Drugs & the DRE Program at Peavey Plaza

Video documentation by local activists and independent media shows that police officers and county deputies from across Minnesota have been picking up young people near Peavey Plaza for a training program to recognize drug-impaired drivers. Multiple participants say officers gave them illicit drugs and provided other incentives to take the drugs. The Occupy movement, present at Peavey Plaza since April 7th, appears to be targeted as impaired people are dropped off at the Plaza, and others say they’ve been rewarded for offering to snitch on the movement.

Local independent media activists and members of Communities United Against Police Brutality began investigating police conduct around the Plaza after witnessing police dropping off impaired people at the plaza and hearing rumors that they were offering people drugs. We videotaped police conduct and interviewed participants, learning some very disturbing information about the DRE program.

Officers stated on record the DRE program, run by the Minnesota State Patrol, has no Institutional Review Board or independent oversight. They agreed no ambulances or EMTs were on site at the Richfield MnDOT facility near the airport where most subjects were taken. Multiple times, participants left Peavey Plaza sober, returned intoxicated, and said they’d been given free drugs by law enforcement. We documented on more than one occasion, someone being told they were sober by one officer, and then picked up by a different officer, and returning intoxicated.

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