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Democracy Now! host Amy was arrested Monday afternoon in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she was covering the Republican National Convention. Police seized Goodman as she attempted to defend two Democracy Now! producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, who had just been arrested on "probable cause for riot." Goodman and her colleagues are now being held at the Ramsey County Jail. Earlier this month, before the Democratic and Republican conventions began, Goodman wrote an op-ed [hotlink: http://www.truthout.org/article/dont-cage-dissent] warning of an impending police crackdown in Denver and St. Paul. "Dissent is essential to the functioning of a democratic society," Goodman wrote. "There is no more important time than now." -ms/TO

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