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(604 posts) Tue Sep 6, 2016, 09:51 PM Sep 2016

Watch Brazilian police attack anti-impeachment protesters

Riot police detain a man during an anti-impeachment protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday. (Fernando Donasci/Reuters).

RIO DE JANEIRO — A peaceful rally in Sao Paulo on Sunday afternoon to protest the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and call for elections ended in violence hours later amid widespread accusations of police brutality.

Cellphone videos of panicked protesters fleeing clouds of tear gas and a BBC Brasil reporter apparently being knocked over by riot police have raised concerns that further demonstrations, including those planned for Wednesday — Brazil's independence day — may be marred by violence.

Many fear a repeat of 2013, when violent protests roiled Brazil and masked youths fought pitched battles with police in Rio and Sao Paulo for months afterward.

Rousseff was ousted from office by the Brazilian Senate on Thursday after an impeachment trial that she and her leftist supporters labeled a parliamentary coup. She was replaced by former vice president Michel Temer. He first took over as interim president when Rousseff was suspended in May and has been trying to introduce austerity measures and a more conservative agenda.

Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/05/watch-brazilian-police-attack-anti-impeachment-protesters/

See videos:
https://www.facebook.com/bbcbrasil/videos/10153869921707816/
https://www.facebook.com/midiaNINJA/videos/714416635383151/

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Watch Brazilian police attack anti-impeachment protesters (Original Post) OBenario Sep 2016 OP

It's a surprise that the Washington Post published an article which covered the protest Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. It's a surprise that the Washington Post published an article which covered the protest

Reply to OBenario (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 11:52 PM

Sep 2016

against the impeachment.

For many recent years the Post has attacked leftist Presidents, and slobbered all over fascist tools of the US friendship circle, which has appeared to only like fascists for many years, regardless of what President the people have elected.

If Brazil can get Dilma or Lula back who was there before, it will be an inspiration to all the sane, good people in the world.
Everyone of them is pulling for the sane, decent Brazilian people who elected them in the first place.

Loved hearing the chorus singing "Fora Temer." They had a lot of supporters around them, too.

Great links, and great comments through the translation device.

I sure hope it went better for that man they attacked and dragged off into their truck than it looks. Could see nothing at all which should have enraged them. He was acting very quiet. Sure hope he will get home O.K., but that looked bad.

Thank you for these updates.

We're all concerned.

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