Local designer and street-artist Shepard Fairey was busted in Denver at the Democratic convention as he describes in the video above; apparently the cops were going nuts there but perhaps not as crazy as they've been in Minnesota for the Republican convention. We think Shepard should head to Minneapolis and put some Obama posters up there.
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