Missouri conventioneers encounter protesters
ST. PAUL — While the Republican presidential convention got underway Monday inside the Xcel Center, police and protesters tangled outside.
Some accounts reported estimates of up to 10,000 protesters, most of them against the war in Iraq, who took to St. Paul’s streets. Some got violent, with reports of bricks tossed into buses containing delegates from Connecticut and Florida.
Protesters had been a presence in the city since Saturday, but generally those earlier encounters were noisy but peaceful.
St. Louis Election Board chairwoman Carol Wilson relates the encounter that she and several Missouri delegates had on Sunday with a protester.


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