Outraged citizens protest in Costa Rica in support of stabbed good Samaritan

Outraged citizens protest in Costa Rica in support of stabbed good Samaritan
L. Arias |3 days ago


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Pedestrians on Thursday, Oct. 8 write support messages for Gerardo Cruz Barquero on a wall at Calderón Guardia Hospital, in downtown San José, where Cruz remains in critical condition.
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University students and other groups on Thursday tacked poster board on a wall outside Calderón Guardia Hospital, in downtown San José, and asked people to write messages of support for Gerardo Cruz Barquero, who was brutally stabbed Wednesday night just days after a video he took of a man apparently trying to shoot video up a woman’s skirt went viral on social media.

Pedestrians soon filled the wall with messages such as “Hang in there Gerardo,” “Stop Macho Violence,” and “Thank you Gerardo!” Other messages urge harsher punishments for perpetrators of sexual harassment.

Cruz, 22, made headlines worldwide earlier this week after he posted a video on his Facebook page confronting another man who he caught recording video with his cellphone up a woman’s skirt.

Cruz’s mother Ana Patricia Barquero said Thursday afternoon that her son was stabbed on his way to a relative’s house where he was supposed to give an interview to Channel 6 Noticias Repretel.

More:
http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/10/08/citizens-support-stabbed-good-samaritan

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Watch: Man Publicly Shamed For Up-Skirt Filming (Video)



By Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, Thu, October 8, 2015

Gerardo Cruz Barquero was walking the streets of San Jose, Costa Rica, when he noticed an unidentified man filming up a young woman’s skirt. Baquero confronted him and caught the encounter on camera. (Video below)

“Sir, are you having fun filming that young girl?” Barquero asks the man in the video, according to Excelsior Magazine, a Spanish-language publication.

Barquero then tells the woman about the video the man was discretely filming and he advised her to call the police.

The man then flees into a taxi, and he hides his face while Barquero shouts: “Why are you going? You’re going to be all over Facebook. What are you hiding from you dirty, old man?”

More:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/social/costa-rican-man-publicly-shames-man-filming-womans-skirt-video