Originally Posted by Pioneer Press

The question of police force is also likely to be scrutinized in the case of Duncan Hardee, a 20-year-old from Raleigh, N.C. With a guitar case slung on his back and arms outstretched, Hardee, on the first day of the convention, challenged an advancing police line on Kellogg Boulevard near Wabasha Street. One officer shoved Hardee backward with a wooden baton across the chest. Hardee fell to the pavement, got up and assumed his previous position.

Officers surrounded him and forced him to the ground. The incident was witnessed, videotaped and photographed by the Pioneer Press, among others.

A KSTP-TV video shows a man who appears to be Hardee on the pavement and apparently under the control of a number of officers. One officer points a pepper-spray canister at Hardee's eyes from a few inches away and discharges it. St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh has declined to comment on specific incidents.