2012/11/15

22 arrested versus 29 injured

The original title of this post was 'European Strike 14N' because testerday we had a call for strike in many places in Europe. Some of the European countries doesn't have the right for a general strike (like Germany). In fact the bigger calls was in the south of the continent: Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, and Spain have had a journey strike, in Greece they had a 3 hour call for strike (remember that they have had 2 journeys of strike last 10th). In Italy the call has been made for 4 hour.

But why the today's news have changed my mind? I thing there is a mismatch in the police actions when the injured people in the demonstrations are more than the arrested (worst when the is not intersection between the arrested joint and the injured joint).

Well we have to think that one of the injured is a riot police man that has run over by a police ban:

Another of the incredible videos of the demonstrations is the one that a 13 yeas old kit has been injured in Tarragona:

After watch the video I have hallucinated with the hits on the girl close to where other physically protect the kit. After the girl protest to the riot controller, she have received the shield hit only to be telling something to the police. This girl doesn't look to be a menace to those police men. But after she have received 3 truncheon hits by two different elements of those shielded giants.

News like this ones that gives more injured people than arrested, makes me think that their method is not working because more innocents (because they hasn't been arrested) have been injured, further when they often say that they have identified hundreds of violent persons.

It is also incredible when the police count as injured their riot controllers with wrist pain. Where the origin of this pain is the hit with the truncheon, and they are not counting all the beat by this truncheons. In the case of the people in the protest, you must finish in the hospital with a big damage to be counted in this list.

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