State AG Should Bring Charges In 2003 Miami Police Attacks On FTAA Protest

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Florida AFL-CIO : State AG Should Bring Charges In 2003 Miami Police Attacks On FTAA Protesters

By Doug Cunningham

The AFL-CIO and allied groups are calling on Florida’s Attorney General – who is now running for governor - to investigate and prosecute widespread police brutality and civil liberties abuses during the 2003 Miami protests against the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement. Rich Templin of the Florida AFL-CIO says two independent panels investigated and found that civil liberties were clearly trampled and there was department-wide police brutality against the working families protesting the trade agreement. Templin says the paramilitary police attack on the Miami FTAA peaceful protest was an appalling assault on the constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and protest.

: "It was to send a message - this is gonna happen each and every time the people in this country stand up to the Bush regime. This is what's gonna happen when you get in the way of the corporations' plans for global dominance of the planet. They moved in, they surrounded the crowd. They were yelling at us to disperse. When we didn't disperse because we couldn't go anywhere because they had us surrounded, they'd shoot us with rubber projectiles and tear gas. And that was the most helpless I think a lot of us have ever felt in our lives and it was right here in our own country."

Are they the Mafia?