Woman shot with rubber bullets at a protest in Miami, VIDEO

[pisshead]

this will please the anti-american neocons frothing at the mouth for the destruction of their country and their sovereignty.

protesters are terrorists. you will actually hear neocons justify the actions on this video while at the same time declaring how much they love freedom.

it's really disgusting to see us being trained to accept this. when it's real bullets firing at peaceful protesters, the same neocons will roll over and laugh.

and the cops just laugh about it. look what's happened. this is not freedom.

welcome to the new freedom of dictatorship.

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.

pisshead Reviewed by pisshead on 08-17-2006. Woman shot with rubber bullets at a protest in Miami, VIDEO this will please the anti-american neocons frothing at the mouth for the destruction of their country and their sovereignty. protesters are terrorists. you will actually hear neocons justify the actions on this video while at the same time declaring how much they love freedom. it's really disgusting to see us being trained to accept this. when it's real bullets firing at peaceful protesters, the same neocons will roll over and laugh. and the cops just laugh about it. look what's Rating: 5

[Krogith]

Sad days are to come. That was discusting there mentalty about it is horable. Thats supost to be our Right

[Bong30]

As a middle-aged Coral Gables attorney, dressed sharply in a red suit jacket, skirt and black slingback heels, Elizabeth Ritter stood out among the throng of protesters on Nov. 20, 2003.

Frustrated that she couldn't do business because the Miami-Dade County Courthouse was shut down that week during the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit, she hastily made a sign that read ''Fear Totalitarianism'' and decided to stand with the protesters.

The sign, however, became her shield against a barrage of rubber bullets fired at her by a legion of Broward Sheriff's deputies in riot gear. And, in an image captured by a videographer, she is shot in the head as she cowers in the street.

And now another video, recently released, raises questions about the degree to which police, specifically, Broward Sheriff's deputies, were encouraged, -- and even praised -- for using force against Ritter and other protesters.

...

The tape, recorded for training purposes, shows Major John Brooks -- then a captain -- addressing dozens of deputies in an outdoor BSO tent.

''How about yesterday, huh?'' Brooks says, complimenting the officers for their work during the protests. ``I would go to war with everyone here.''

Brooks continues, ``I went home, I couldn't sleep, I was just so pumped up about how good you guys were . . . Nobody broke ranks. You're the best I've ever been with.''

Sgt. Michael Kallman, a BSO counterterrorism unit officer, addresses the group next. A voice off-camera says, ``What about the lady behind the sign? We have intel on her?''

The officers laugh.

Kallman smiles and says, ``The good news about being able to watch you guys live on TV is that the lady with the red dress, I don't know who got her, but it went right through the sign and hit her smack dab in the middle of the head!''

He raises his forefinger and zooms it toward his forehead.

The cops all laugh.

Another officer asks, off-camera, ``Did I get a piece of her red dress?''

BSO'S RESPONSE

No disciplinary action has been taken against any officers in the video, said BSO spokesman Elliott Cohen.



Having been rumbled in public, the chief cop caught red-handed...or red-mouthed...is of course suddenly contrite. But that's a bit late -- having put the verbal equivalent of a smoking gun on video, they're going to be sued.

Here's why, again from the Herald:

it wasn't trade issues that brought Ritter and her friends to downtown that day. The attorney thought it was overkill that the police had all but shut down the city.

''My city, my hometown, was becoming a police state,'' she said.

A videographer captured what happened next, showing Ritter walking alone in front of a line of BSO deputies on NE Third Street.

As the deputies advance, Ritter turns around to face them and raises her sign.

A barrage of projectiles is fired. She kneels, holding her sign above her head as a shield.

Ritter is shot five times -- in her legs, upper body, and shoulder. And when she kneels on the ground, the sign above her head, a projectile rips through it and strikes her in the head.

Hard rubber projectiles typically leave welts and bruises, but at close range can pierce the skin, or rarely, kill.

'I turned around and said, `Why did you hit me?' Is a woman in a business suit a threat?'' Ritter recalled in a recent interview.

A MISTAKE?

'But then I thought, `That must have been a mistake.' A police officer isn't going to shoot me on purpose.''

Ritter walked around downtown in a daze, finally getting a ride home. Although her head and body were bruised and she was upset, she decided not to make an issue of what happened.

Then, last month the BSO videotape emerged as a result of a public records request from the Miami Civilian Investigative Panel.

Its existence was first reported by the Daily Business Review.


I guess you can shoot left wing nut jobs with rubber bullets....




Why didnt she file a report? Cuse she knew she instigated it?


I have been hasled by the cops so many time skateboarding >>>>>PLEASE

[SpiritLevel]

I think I saw that clip in ''Best of Banned From TV'' or something like it

[Myth1184]

Good Shooting I say

[Breukelen advocaat]

Anybody that thinks that this is bad should have seen the police in Chicago during the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention. They make these Miami cops look like Mr. Rogers! Stew Alpert, a Yippie organizer, got his skull cracked open and many others fared as bad, or worse. Then there was the infamous "Chicago Seven" trial.

[Hamlet]

hhmm, can't protest in America. That's not what we're supposed to be about. Shades of Kent State....

[Breukelen advocaat]

hhmm, can't protest in America. That's not what we're supposed to be about. Shades of Kent State....

Four people were killed, and others badly wounded by the National Guard at Kent State.

[Krogith]

Protesting is our right and Rubber bullets can Kill people. She almost got hit in the Eye. Care for your fellow mankind please.

[Hamlet]

We forget that we are citizens who's Government was elected to work for us. Not Subjects to be controled by Warlords.