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Honduras: Police Brutality Toward Resistance Group

Categories: Latin America, Honduras, Governance, Human Rights, Politics, Protest, War & Conflict

Juan Carlos Rivera in Mirada de Halcón provides a personal account [es] [1] (including photographs) of what he calls a police “attack” on a bridge blockade by the Resistance Front [2] (Frente de Resistencia). Juan Carlos says he had to run away to avoid tear gas from police and bullets from civilians; he also reports that police arrested, dragged and hit protesters and other civilians who were not participating in the blockade. Juan Carlos admits that some of the policemen showed respect toward the “physical integrity of several citizens.”