Originally Posted by Minnesota Public Radio

Cameron Kennedy, 19, of Mankato, was arrested last Monday, on the first day of the convention, after he and his friends joined a protest in downtown St. Paul. The next night at the Ramsey County detention center, Kennedy says he witnessed a brutal beating of a young man named Elliot Hughes after Hughes and others chanted for food all day.

Kennedy also says many of his friends didn't get immediate medical attention for injuries they sustained during the arrests in downtown St. Paul. He says one friend had an injured wrist, while the other had an injured ankle. Kennedy says he didn't have access to his asthma medicine, even on the day he was released. "That morning I asked for my inhaler. I'm an asthmatic. I have an inhaler, and he said it was going to take him about 15 minutes to get it out of my property. And I never got it," said Kennedy.

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There was a hemophiliac who had a wound, and rather than being treated appropriately for that, the person was given a gauze for the wound.

There was a woman who was pepper-sprayed, who was not decontaminated in the jail.

There was one arrestee that had severe asthma and his medication was denied to him.

A man with schizo-affective disorder was not getting his medication.

Another person with gastrointestinal problems.

There was one other person on psychiatric meds that were denied.

Originally Posted by Minnesota Public Radio

Garth Kahl, a medic from Oregon who was arrested during the RNC, couldn't disagree more.

"Frankly, it was disgraceful the treatment that we had here," said Kahl. "These people knew there were going to be hundreds or thousands of arrests. In my opinion, they were woefully unprepared for them and very unprofessional. The actions of the police in many cases exacerbated the situation."

Kahl says he witnessed the denial of medical attention to several people. He says the jail staff were incompetent.