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571 Fwd: Barcelona: Police provoke violence with staged fights (AP) -- rank: 222

... front.php3?article_id=48820&group=webcast According to AP Police Starts Riot in Barcelona BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Riot police made what appeared to be an unprovoked attack Sunday on ... demonstrators, some with small children, fled in panic as the police pushed into the crowd behind shields, wielding truncheons and firing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 25 08:00:23 PDT 2001

572 [lbo-talk] policing protest: strategic incapacitation -- rank: 219

... as consensus-based decentralized decision-making, it was difficult for police to infiltrate and disrupt protest groups, let alone understand what ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Mon Nov 21 11:54:59 PST 2011

573 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [CampusAntiwarNetwork] PROTESTORS ATTACKED BY POLICE WITH TASERS AND K9 UNITS -- rank: 219

... 22, 2005 7:20 AM Subject: [CampusAntiwarNetwork] PROTESTORS ATTACKED BY POLICE WITH TASERS AND K9 UNITS To: CampusAntiwarNetwork at yahoogroups.com ... Meieran, 412-996-4986 Nathan Shaffer, 412-720-9276 PITTSBURGH POLICE ATTACK NON-VIOLENT PROTESTORS WITH TASERS, PEPPER SPRAY AND K ... in Five Arrests and Two Hospitalizations Pittsburgh, PA The Pittsburgh Police Department displayed an excessive use of force at a demonstration ... hospitalized and several others received injuries as a result of police unwarranted use of Tasers, pepper spray, retracting batons and K ... units. Two others were issued citations when they complained about police misconduct. Yester

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Aug 22 14:13:29 PDT 2005

574 [lbo-talk] policing protest: strategic incapacitation -- rank: 219

Shag: ">From negotiated management to strategic incapacitation" [WS:] Thanks for the link. Informative. However, this piece brings to mind the opening line of the "18th brumaire" : history repeats itself twice - once as tragedy, and again as farce. The "tragedy" part of direct action was the Italian Biennio Rosso or a wave ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Tue Nov 22 04:37:58 PST 2011

575 Fwd: Your Crime of Filming (Quebec Reflections) -- rank: 219

... lawyer for Northern Ireland and how she was explaining the police repression in that country. How the police were used as a force of repression for the British Crown. I also remember how our San Francisco Police Commissioner, an leader in the local Irish community, claimed that the police in North America were not like those in Northern Ireland, that our police were here to protect us. I can only look back ... 100% contradistinction to what the conduct of the Royal Mounted Police Force did in the province of Quebec this last ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Tue Apr 24 13:03:16 PDT 2001

576 SF police violence -- rank: 219

... United Nations Plaza area in question below. As far as police violence goes, in the Coalition on Homelessness' July paper _Street ... becoming overrun with overnight campers. He increased the number of police in the park, sent crews in to 'eliminate every single ...

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Author:	alec ramsdell
Date:	Thu Jul 23 08:57:30 PDT 1998

577 [lbo-talk] Settler Violence in Tel Rumeida Neighborhood of Hebron Reaches Critical Levels Written -- rank: 219

http://alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=412&Itemid=1&lang=ISO-8859-1 Settler Violence in Tel Rumeida Neighborhood of Hebron Reaches Critical Levels Written by: Josh Friedman Date: Wednesday, 26 April 2006 Human Rights Workers Hold Press Conference in Jerusalem Jerusalem: A broad coalition of ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Apr 26 13:54:23 PDT 2006

578 [lbo-talk] UK police given shoot-to-kill orders -- rank: 219

... com - July 22, 2005 Shoot-to-kill guidelines for UK police By Jimmy Burns and Frederick Studemann in London Police have been given secret new shoot-to-kill guidelines in ... train at Stockwell, south London. The new guidelines for armed police and surveillance officers confronting suspected suicide terrorists advise them to ... the bomb attacks that have killed more than 50 people. Police said the dead man had been under observation because he ... four men suspected of Thursday's attacks. The implication that police were operatin

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 16:15:12 PDT 2005

579 [lbo-talk] Killer cops in Queensland -- rank: 219

... from an inquest into the death, in an isolated island police station, of a man whose fatal crime was to be ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Fri Sep 29 07:34:50 PDT 2006

580 Halfbright Ordered Seattle Crackdown -- rank: 219

... of security planning by Mayor Paul Schell and the Seattle Police Department had already disintegrated into crisis. Thousands of raucous protesters ... delegates from getting to the trade meeting. The 400 Seattle police officers on the street were clearly outmanned. Events were turning ... city officials that afternoon in a command center at Seattle police

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Author:	Jeffrey St. Clair
Date:	Thu Dec 16 09:25:19 PST 1999

581 [lbo-talk] London police shot South American? -- rank: 216

Britian Says Man Killed by Police Had No Tie to Bombings By ALAN COWELL LONDON, July 23 - Scotland Yard admitted Saturday that a man police officers chased and shot to death at point-blank range ... bombing attacks here. Senior investigators and officials of the Metropolitan Police said the man was believed to be South American; it ... were found on the man's body after the shooting, police officials said. The incident sent shock waves through the country ... bombers. And it has dealt a major setback to the police investigation into suspected terrorist cells in London. "This really is ... appalling set of circumstances," said John O'Connor, a former police commander. "The consequences are quite horrible." Azzam Tamimi,

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Jul 23 13:46:56 PDT 2005

582 [lbo-talk] Robert Fisk: Somebody is trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq -- rank: 216

Colin Brace wrote: > Interview, Lateline - ABC Australia, 03/02/2006: > > The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying > to provoke the civil war? Now the Americans will say it's Al Qaeda, > it's the Sunni insurgents. It is the death squads. Many of the ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Tue Mar 7 06:22:52 PST 2006

583 Police Repression in Windsor (Canada) -- rank: 214

... message from Karen Kawawada <kkawawada at mx6.tiki.ne.jp> ----- Police Repression in Windsor by Judy Rebick It was like living in a police state. Windsor, June 4, 2000 may not go down in ... the middle protecting them from being picked off by the police. Already the police had started harassing the young people. One fellow was arrested ... studs, punk accessory du jour, but to the over-hyped police it looked like a weapon. Others reported to me being ...

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Author:	JC Helary
Date:	Sun Jun 11 18:58:56 PDT 2000

584 [lbo-talk] My Home Town ;-< -- rank: 214

... at 9:45 a.m. ET BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Police quelled a second night of disturbances after rioters protesting the death of a motorcyclist during a police chase set at least five buildings and five cars on fire. Allegations of police harassment have been a source of tension in the economically ... one person in the shoulder and beat and stabbed others, police said. In all, 10 to 15 people were hurt, none ... unbelievable to see this in our community,'' said Samuel Harris, police chief in the city on Lake Michigan, 100 miles from Chicago. About 150 state troopers and 100 other police officers used tear gas and other non-lethal methods ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Jun 18 08:10:32 PDT 2003

585 [lbo-talk] Haiti participation -- rank: 214

... www.hrw.org/wr2k1/americas/haiti.html Human Rights Developments Police and government passivity in the face of intimidation and violence ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Mar 11 17:16:38 PST 2004