Lenina Rosenweg
30th July 2012, 15:53
This isn't nearly on the scale of police violence in Anaheim and its a shadow of what minorities in the US face on a daily basis but it does show the increasing level of repression we can expect as conditions continue to deteriorate for most of the population.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/169144/burlington-riot-police-fire-pepper-spray-projectiles-protesters
A weekend protest in Burlington turned violent when police shot protesters with pepper spray and rubber bullets. Hundreds of activists demonstrating against a proposed tar sands oil pipeline that would extend across northern New England gathered in front of a Hilton housing attendees for the 36th annual New England Governors conference. Just before 5 P.M., the demonstrators attempted to block buses transporting the conference attendees to dinner, prompting police dressed in riot gear to fire on the crowd.
"The police and Burlington PD responded forcefully, kinda got the butt end of that," said Marnie Salerno, a recent college graduate who works in a coffee shop and sustained minor injuries during the clash. "Shot with pepper spray coated rubber bullets –then some other people were shot with just rubber bullets and other people were pepper sprayed. I was pushed into the middle of college street and I had officers pushing me back and one with a gun on me most of the time that had these bullets, yeah."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/169144/burlington-riot-police-fire-pepper-spray-projectiles-protesters
A weekend protest in Burlington turned violent when police shot protesters with pepper spray and rubber bullets. Hundreds of activists demonstrating against a proposed tar sands oil pipeline that would extend across northern New England gathered in front of a Hilton housing attendees for the 36th annual New England Governors conference. Just before 5 P.M., the demonstrators attempted to block buses transporting the conference attendees to dinner, prompting police dressed in riot gear to fire on the crowd.
"The police and Burlington PD responded forcefully, kinda got the butt end of that," said Marnie Salerno, a recent college graduate who works in a coffee shop and sustained minor injuries during the clash. "Shot with pepper spray coated rubber bullets –then some other people were shot with just rubber bullets and other people were pepper sprayed. I was pushed into the middle of college street and I had officers pushing me back and one with a gun on me most of the time that had these bullets, yeah."