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25 September 2009

This video, posted yesterday afternoon is of an “arrest” of a demonstrator at the Pittsburgh G-20 Summit.   The posters (“g20media”) say it’s “some scary shit, man” and the demonstrators did not have a parade permit…

The guy hustling a demonstrator into an unmarked car are, we are told, members of a “multi-agency tactical response team assigned to the security operations for the G20”.

They look more like kidnapping to me.  The irony is that the winner of my trivia contest wants me to make my donation to Rosario Ibarra’s Comité !Eureka! founded to uncover the fate of victims of  “multi-agency tactical response teams assigned to security operations” here in Mexico, and bring the organizers of those “multi-agency tactical response teams assigned to security operation” to justice.   Although in Latin America, there is a pithier name for such operations  — “forced disappearances”.   And for the “multi-agency tactical response teams assigned to security operation.  We usually just refer to them as death squads.  And the people who think up these kinds of police operations as “criminals”.

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