The Hollywood Liberal

Police clash with protesters at G8

AP
Excerpt
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (Reuters) – Around 10,000 anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police on Wednesday, injuring eight, as they tried to blockade routes to a summit of major powers in northern Germany.

Police used water cannons to push back demonstrators. Delegates from several G8 countries said the protests were limiting their ability to move around at the summit venue, a seaside resort on Germany’s Baltic coast.

Protesters were trying to block access to a luxury hotel on the coast in Heiligendamm where G8 leaders including U.S. President George W. Bush were gathering…..

By late afternoon, all three roads leading into Heiligendamm were blocked off by protesters and police in full riot gear wielding transparent shields lined the entrance to the town.

German NDR public radio said the only way into Heiligendamm was via boat or helicopter.

“We’re stuck here now. The whole place looks shut down,” an official from one of the delegations said by telephone from inside the summit venue.

SECURITY FENCE

Some 16,000 security personnel are in the area. World leaders are shielded from thousands of demonstrators by a 12-km (7.5-mile) fence topped with barbed wire.

Behrens said roughly 10,000 demonstrators were violating a ban on demonstrations in the area and risked being detained.

HL’s Take
I love the way AP slants this story “Around 10,000 anti-capitalist protesters,” Yes I’m sure these people are all anti-capitalists, they are demanding the world turn to communism now. What a joke. How about “Anti-facist protesters” and about that 10,000 number, you can be sure that the number is at least double that. The media loves to downplay peoples protests. Like that time in 2004 in New York at the convention when between 400,000 and 500,000 people came to the convention to protest Bush. The media reported it as “Thousands” Take a look at the pic, looks like a lot of people to me.

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