Woman shot with rubber bullets at a protest in Miami

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/170806_rubber_bullets.html

Woman shot with rubber bullets at a protest in Miami

Jones Report | August 17, 2006

Elizabeth Ritter was shot four times with rubber bullets by police while she was protesting a Free Trade Summit in Miami, August 10.

This horrifying example truly shows the disconnect between police and the citizens they pose as protecting and serving.

These police actually laugh at their victims, in spite of news cameras and hundreds of witnesses of which they were certainly aware. Arrogant and unchecked power now threatens to be the norm for ever-increasing riot police.

They rule with faux violence and real threats (rubber bullets been known to cause death, in certain cases). Here, Ritter was even shot in the face in an archetypal showdown with goons dressed in black 'storm trooper' uniforms, over-armed to handle a peaceful protest.

They shoot at a business woman repeatedly, even after seeing blood drip from her body. Somewhere, behind a disconnected, under-informed and wrongly influenced "peaceful" force, these instruments of terror think they are protecting the populace rather than subjecting them to tyranny, all the more terrifying for being out in the open.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slaw1tYDPFc

video summaray: the video includes footage of the protesters walking down the street and cops opening fire with rubber bullets. the protesters ask "why are you doing this to us?" and the police laugh, one says "fuck you put this on your website", then there is footage of the cops in their tent later on, with the head guy acting like a football coach talking about it as a "win" against the protesters, then laugh more about shooting the woman in the red jacket. at the end there is news footage of the event. it's about 4 minutes long.

official news footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAKebaxEMoI