Whose Side Are You On? Anti-Austerity Cops Face Off Against Riot Police in Portugal

[DeSwiss]

- It shouldn't be too much longer now......

Defending their pensions from the threat of ever-deepening austerity cuts, as many as ten thousand off-duty police officers and state security agents in Portugal found themselves on the other side of the barricades Thursday night as they faced down their on-duty colleagues in riot control gear.

With a march through Lisbon that ended at the steps of parliament, the angry police and security union members broke through security fences, and even briefly occupied the entrance to Parliament before the night was over.

The proposed cuts in public pensions are being demanded by the nation's creditors in exchange for a government bailout package received in 2011.

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[font size=1]Portuguese police officers gather outside parliament during a protest in Lisbon on November 21, 2013.


People march towards the Portuguese parliament during a protest in Lisbon on November 21, 2013. (Press TV)


An off-duty office is detained on the steps of parliament. (AP)


A demonstrator waves the flag of the Association of Professional Police Officers during a protest against the government's austerity measures outside Parliament in Lisbon. (Photo: AFP/Francisco Leong)[/font][/center]

[Katashi_itto]

1. Yep, cut into your security forces pension then it's a different ballgame.

Wonder if the corporations will make the same mistake here?