Mapuche Killing Sparks Riots in Santiago, Chile
Sirens and tear gas filled the air near the Los Heroes Metro station in central Santiago Friday evening when demonstrators and the police encountered on the recent death of a young Mapuche during a confrontation with the police in the region IX.According autopsy, Jaime Mendoza Collio , 24, was in the back while trying to shoot a farm with 50 other Region IX, to occupy the ancestral possession of the land claimed. The autopsy results caused doubts about the first reports of the police officer so that Jara Patricio Muñoz said the victim was shot in self-defense. The Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group to increase for a long time with the government on land use and other emissions Santiago bounced protest for two hours up and down clashed Alameda Ave. (A large artery in central Santiago), pitting the demonstrators - Mapuche and otherwise - against the police and special forces trying to shut down the “illegal” protest at any price. The protest was one of several demonstrations that occur over the weekend across the country, including at least two in Santiago - Cerro Santa Lucia and the Universidad de Chile, Macul Campus. “Asesinos!” (“Killers”), the slogan of many demonstrators, all she could find - was above all threw rocks and bottles at police. The people held pictures of Mendoza Collio, crying and screaming at police.Police reacted harshly to chase criminals on foot or in packs, usually shouting with clubs and smoke grenades in hand, against the demonstrators. The police wore heavy body armor that set of thick bulletproof vests that cover their arms and legs. Many riot instead shields.Protesters and pedestrians alike ran from the onslaught of the fire engine which groups with their powerful rays of dark, roaming-plated metal truck streets.Many pedestrians, students and workers in the area near submerged and hidden business schools to avoid the tear gas, often to their faces with scarves, shirts or whatever they could get their hands on to protect themselves from the burning smoke while running from one refuge to another. Pedestrian pitch on Alameda Ave. received high doses of the gas - their eyes red and burning as they ran into the street away.Protesters buried at different times, knocking over road signs and slamming buses and police cars with sticks and other weapons, scattering, and then as a fresh tear gas grenade exploded in their feet.One demonstrators began pounding a police truck with a big stick, only to get a new face full of smoke moments later. “Asesinos! Matan por la espalda “(murderer! You shoot the man in the back!”) A young woman shouted by a group of Carabineros (Chile’s uniformed police), after which they hunt you down and drag her kicking and screaming to the nearest police van. “She did nothing! It is only a child! “Rief Ñamcuvil Carmen, a Mapuche protesters who went to the police and tried to drag her boyfriend out of the police car. The arrested youths, a 20-year-old Chilean students later identified as Kristel Hernandez, was one of many arrested in the police custody clash.Every brought a mass of people, including dozens of photographic and video cameras to surround the spot, recorded every second , when the police pushed the people in buses to the police. “[The prisoners] have to go down to the station and probably be home within 2-3 hours,” said Lt. Mauricio Barreos, an officer with the Special Forces. “It is a minor offense. Not like the people we imprison Molotov cocktails. “” It’s terrible, terrible for us both, “said Barreos, gesturing to Ñamcuvil that held by the bus was their friend.” In my unit there are three or four ended with broken arms. “Barreo were estimated 1,000 police officers - 500 regular police officers and 500 Special Forces - on the streets of Santiago on Friday afternoon.
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