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Return of Police Officer Casual Pepper Spray
Do remember the meme created from the video of two police officers, dousing passive, seated, unarmed student protesters with military-grade pepper spray for about 15 seconds at point blank range ?
That happened in 2011, at the University of California Davis.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uc-davis-pepper-spray-video_us_570fc93fe4b03d8b7b9fb62b
"Protestor pepper sprayed by police"
Police officer dressed in protective para military gear, including face shield and gas mask. From a few feet away, praying military grade tear gas in thick heavy stream into the side of the face of woman.
Where ? Teachers Federation March, Puerto Rico,
https://iamaneducator.com/2018/05/0...e-will-prevail/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
May Day in Puerto Rico:
Police Attack Anti-Austerity Protesters with Pepper Spray & Tear Gas
May 2, 2018
Puerto Rico, thousands marked May Day by joining a general strike in the capital of San Juan to protest austerity measures, from the closing of public schools to increases in university tuition. When protesters tried to converge on the building where the federal oversight board has its offices, police fired tear gas and pepper spray. The board has called for the implementation of 10 percent pension cuts, eliminating mandatory Christmas bonuses, reducing required vacation and sick time, and allowing businesses to fire employees without having to first prove a just cause. This comes as at least 30,000 people still lack power almost eight months since Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Last month, an excavator downed a transmission line, blacking out the entire electrical grid.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/2/may_day_in_puerto_rico_police
Puerto Ricans are not only suffering under the longest blackout in U.S. history, harsh austerity measures are being shoved down their throats by the U.S. government’s Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, which they dub “The Junta.” Those measures and school closings, cuts to pensions and services, the privatization of the power agency — PREPA — policies of the current Governor Ricardo “Ricky” Rosselló are making many people on the island very, very angry.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...e-against-the-Junta-Control-Board-for-May-Day
Board that was not elected, plans austerity measures, Governor does the same
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And what about the—what about the austerity measures that are being implemented? How many schools now have been closed again, after several hundred were closed previously?
GIOVANNI ROBERTO:
We have to remember that Puerto Rico has been in a recession, a crisis, since 2006. So, these austerity measures have been being implemented in Puerto Rico for the last 10 years to 12. In the last five years, more than 500 schools have been shut down. This year, they’re trying to shut down 283 schools. They’re saying that it’s because there is a depopulation of the island, but if you shut down most of the schools, mainly elementary schools, you’re pushing people out of Puerto Rico. So that’s the main reason. You know, people are being pushed out of Puerto Rico because of the austerity measures. And they have already cut the pensions of teachers and other workers, public workers, in Puerto Rico. So they’re pushing people to poverty.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/2/puerto_rico_needs_help_unelected_fiscal
Puerto Rico was screwed over by Wall Street with a scam, Just After Wall Street screwed over everyone, with many scams, and caused the Crash of 2007-2008
Blackout in Puerto Rico
MAY 1, 2018
SEASON 36: EPISODE 10
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, examining how the federal response, Wall Street and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/blackout-in-puerto-rico/
Wall Street is an octopus, and it is always snaking its arms to search for new victims to cannibalize. China brought Africa to Wall Street's attention. America has its own reasons for taking an interest.
https://www.northcountrypublicradio...vertise-it-but-u-s-troops-are-all-over-africa
Do remember the meme created from the video of two police officers, dousing passive, seated, unarmed student protesters with military-grade pepper spray for about 15 seconds at point blank range ?
That happened in 2011, at the University of California Davis.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uc-davis-pepper-spray-video_us_570fc93fe4b03d8b7b9fb62b
"Protestor pepper sprayed by police"
Police officer dressed in protective para military gear, including face shield and gas mask. From a few feet away, praying military grade tear gas in thick heavy stream into the side of the face of woman.
Where ? Teachers Federation March, Puerto Rico,
https://iamaneducator.com/2018/05/0...e-will-prevail/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
May Day in Puerto Rico:
Police Attack Anti-Austerity Protesters with Pepper Spray & Tear Gas
May 2, 2018
Puerto Rico, thousands marked May Day by joining a general strike in the capital of San Juan to protest austerity measures, from the closing of public schools to increases in university tuition. When protesters tried to converge on the building where the federal oversight board has its offices, police fired tear gas and pepper spray. The board has called for the implementation of 10 percent pension cuts, eliminating mandatory Christmas bonuses, reducing required vacation and sick time, and allowing businesses to fire employees without having to first prove a just cause. This comes as at least 30,000 people still lack power almost eight months since Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Last month, an excavator downed a transmission line, blacking out the entire electrical grid.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/2/may_day_in_puerto_rico_police
Puerto Ricans are not only suffering under the longest blackout in U.S. history, harsh austerity measures are being shoved down their throats by the U.S. government’s Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, which they dub “The Junta.” Those measures and school closings, cuts to pensions and services, the privatization of the power agency — PREPA — policies of the current Governor Ricardo “Ricky” Rosselló are making many people on the island very, very angry.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...e-against-the-Junta-Control-Board-for-May-Day
Board that was not elected, plans austerity measures, Governor does the same
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And what about the—what about the austerity measures that are being implemented? How many schools now have been closed again, after several hundred were closed previously?
GIOVANNI ROBERTO:
We have to remember that Puerto Rico has been in a recession, a crisis, since 2006. So, these austerity measures have been being implemented in Puerto Rico for the last 10 years to 12. In the last five years, more than 500 schools have been shut down. This year, they’re trying to shut down 283 schools. They’re saying that it’s because there is a depopulation of the island, but if you shut down most of the schools, mainly elementary schools, you’re pushing people out of Puerto Rico. So that’s the main reason. You know, people are being pushed out of Puerto Rico because of the austerity measures. And they have already cut the pensions of teachers and other workers, public workers, in Puerto Rico. So they’re pushing people to poverty.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/2/puerto_rico_needs_help_unelected_fiscal
Puerto Rico was screwed over by Wall Street with a scam, Just After Wall Street screwed over everyone, with many scams, and caused the Crash of 2007-2008
Blackout in Puerto Rico
MAY 1, 2018
SEASON 36: EPISODE 10
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, examining how the federal response, Wall Street and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/blackout-in-puerto-rico/
Wall Street is an octopus, and it is always snaking its arms to search for new victims to cannibalize. China brought Africa to Wall Street's attention. America has its own reasons for taking an interest.
https://www.northcountrypublicradio...vertise-it-but-u-s-troops-are-all-over-africa
