4 Free speech could cost you.

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Some Minnesota lawmakers want to get tough on protesters. One proposed bill would make it a gross misdemeanor, with fines up to $3,000 and a year in jail, to block a highway, including entrance and exit ramps, WCCO-TV reports. Another measure would let police departments sue convicted protesters for costs related to demonstrations. After the shooting deaths of two black men by police--one in November 2015, the other last summer--protesters set up encampments and marched...

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