Needs photos of police violence used against peaceful demonstrators

[jesusq]

I am working on a photo essay on the use of "less than lethal" tactics used against peace demonstrators. Sources, places and dates needed whenever possible. Thanks. Post your links.

Love Jesus

[Bluebear]

1. portland, oregon, Oct 26, 2002

Portland, Or. - According to Portland news writer Robin Franzen's report on Oct. 26, 2002, protesters filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Portland asking for financial damages after many people, including women and children were seriously injured by the aggressive Portland Police. They also demanded a court-ordered civilian police review board and a ban on using pepper spray and rubber bullets against peaceful protesters.

The U.S. District Court complaint, according to the reporter alledged "dousing peaceful demonstrators with chemical agents at close range and firing rubber bullets into the crowd as part of a pattern and practice of flagrantly violating peaceful demonstrators' First Amendment rights."
Mayor Katz, Police Chief Mark Kroeker, along with the city and others, were accused of violating the protesters rights to free speech and free assembly through excessive police force during President Bush's visit on Aug. 22.

President Bush was appearing at a political fund-raiser for Republican Sen. Gordon Smith at the Hilton Portland and citizens were trying to get thier messages accross to the President by protesting.

This type of harrassment of law abiding United States citizens is becoming all to common with little national coverage. Most if not all of the citizens involved in protesting are breaking no laws but are being aggresively attacked by police with directives to do so, or are being forced into a "protest zone" far away from the view of the very people the protest is directed toward. What is our President afraid of? Why are police directed to keep citizens who are lawfully excercising thier right to protest away from the President? These and more are questions that beg to be answered.

[Radical Activist]

2. Miami FTAA protests 2003

You should be able to find a lot of pictures from that. That is what a police state looks like. What happened there confirmed that we are not living in a democracy.
Here's a photo gallery.
http://ftaaimc.org/en/2003/12/2637.shtml

[Bluebear]

3. Jacksonville, Oregon, October 14, 2004

JACKSONVILLE, Ore. - Police in riot gear fired “pepper balls” Thursday night to disperse a crowd of protesters assembled in this historic gold mining town where President Bush was spending the night after a campaign appearance.

Witnesses said Bush supporters were on one side of California Street chanting “Four more years,” and supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry were on the other chanting “Three more weeks.” Police began moving the crowd away from the Jacksonville Inn, where the president was to arrive for dinner and to spend the night following a speech.

“We were here to protest Bush and show our support for Kerry,” said Cerridewen Bunten, 24, a college student and retail clerk. “Nobody was being violent. We were out of the streets so cars could go by. We were being loud, but I never knew that was against the law.”

Bunten said she was pushed by police as she held her 6-year-old daughter.

[LynzM]

4. There's a really terrible one of a girl

With a giant welt on the side of her neck from a rubber bullet... I don't have a copy, but hopefully someone here does.

[wicket]

5. Sorry, was thinking of another one

This girl was killed after Red Sox game, but I do know of the picture you speak of, it was brutal.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/22/postgame_police_projectile_kills_an_emerson_student/

[bpilgrim]

6. Oakland 2003-7-April

more...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/images/bush/protest/Oakland/2003-7-April-203943/

more protest pics (not all violent)
http://news.globalfreepress.com/images/bush/protest

peace

[bpilgrim]

7. did you find the pictures useful?

kick

peace

[jesusq]

10. Very helpful. Thanks.

[LynzM]

8. This is the one I was talking about

God, what an awful thing to go through, facing your own police/military force, when you didn't do anything wrong. :scared:

[flvegan]

9. Indymedia had a stockpile of them

Probably search the archives to find them...

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml