ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Even as the most militant protesters vow to press on, police efforts at disrupting anarchist plans to crash the Republican National Convention appear to be largely successful.
Police have arrested nearly 300 people since Saturday in pre-emptive raids and at protests marred by violence. Most of the arrests, and the violence, happened Monday.
Today's only arrests so far came when four women from the peace group CODEPINK crawled under a fence a couple of blocks from the Xcel Energy Center.
Ramsey County Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin says those arrested are being processed as quickly as possible.
Total arrests have reached 294, and of those 16 felonies and 47 gross misdemeanors have been charged. All the others arrested were either cited for misdemeanors and released, let go pending further investigation, or released outright.
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