G8 Genoa killing. Parallels to Cincinnati paramilitary police SWAT training.

Have Latin American and North American paramilitary death squads now moved into Europe too?

\"In the police shooting, believed to be the first death in a series of riots over the past two years at such international gatherings, demonstrators attacked a Carabinieri paramilitary police van with stones. One was hit by two gunshots from the van after he threw a fire extinguisher at the vehicle, Reuters witnesses said. The demonstrator fell to the ground and then was run over by a Carabinieri jeep that backed over him.\"
-- From July 20, 2001 Reuters article.
See full article farther down.

J20 in Genoa - Photo Mirror. Protesters Killed by Police.
http://www.jellhead.com/~genoa/

Yahoo! News Full Coverage-G8 Protester Shot Dead By Italian Paramilitary. Text, photos, audio, video.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Business/Global_Economy/

italia indymedia - MIRROR.
http://www.phillyimc.org/italy.indymedia.org/

italia indymedia -
http://italy.indymedia.org/

This is against even Cincinnati police shooting policies. Cincy police are trained to shoot at the chest because it is the surest way to stop a person with a weapon pointed at a cop. 2 shots to the head is flat-out murder with extreme prejudice.

The roots of the extreme escalation of the Cincinnati police reign of terror in November 2000 just before the TABD protests was the paramilitary take-no-prisoners SWAT training led by ex-SWAT leader and now police chief Thomas \"SWAT\" Streicher. It was also mostly SWAT members who did the brutal unprovoked beanbag stop-and-go driveby of Timothy Thomas mourners April 14, 2001 outside the Timothy Thomas funeral. These buckshot beanbags hospitalized a teacher there.

The sordid, brutal history of sexist, racist, Cincinnati police chief, Thomas \"SWAT\" Streicher.
http://ohiovalleyimc.org/cgi-bin/imc.pl?where=display&article=533

Police Lt. Col. Richard Janke to Mount Adams (part of Cincinnati) protesters before protest even began: \"We are prepared to WHACK you and take you out if necessary.\"
http://www.ovimc.org/cgi-bin/imc.pl?where=display&article=535

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Reuters article:

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Shooting of G8 Demonstrator Sweeps Aside Politics.
Updated 2:39 PM ET July 20, 2001

By Dylan Martinez and Brian Williams

GENOA (Reuters) - Street riots, including the fatal police shooting of an anti-globalization demonstrator, swept aside worthy words on the opening day of a Group of Eight leaders\' summit on Friday.

Black smoke and tear gas billowed over the Italian port of Genoa from morning to night as tens of thousands of protesters vented non-stop rage at the rich countries\' summit reviewing the world economy behind steel barricades and lines of riot police.

The killing of a demonstrator at the height of the protests cast a pall over the three-day summit when it had barely begun.

It pushed into the background other issues like a pledge by the G8 leaders to donate over $1 billion to fight AIDS and a statement that the long-term economic outlook for the United States and Europe seemed good despite the current downturn.

Police said that in running battles with protesters a total of 62 people had so far been injured -- 30 members of the security forces, 28 demonstrators and four journalists.

Some 70 people were arrested, they said, as security forces kept waves of protesters away from the fenced-off city center \'\'red zone\'\' where the summit was held.

In the police shooting, believed to be the first death in a series of riots over the past two years at such international gatherings, demonstrators attacked a Carabinieri paramilitary police van with stones.

One was hit by two gunshots from the van after he threw a fire extinguisher at the vehicle, Reuters witnesses said.

The demonstrator fell to the ground and then was run over by a Carabinieri jeep that backed over him.

A police spokesman confirmed one protester was dead but refused to give details.


G8 WON\'T BE CANCELLED

A medic following the protesters said the demonstrator was shot in Piazza Alimonda, about 1.2 miles from the summit site in a Renaissance palace.

``He was hit twice, once in the forehead and once on the left cheek,\'\' Valeria Valerio, a medic with the anti-globalization Genoa Social Forum, told Reuters. ``He had blood pouring from his mouth.\'\'

The killing provoked dismay among world leaders and left them struggling to find a way to end the violence that now follows them whenever they meet.

``I regret what happened. It is contrary to the efforts, the work the G8 has carried forward to combat poverty and world epidemics,\'\' Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair lamented how the world leaders had become trapped by the protests.

``We would prefer to be out there in a normal setting being able to meet people,\'\' Blair told reporters. ``But we can\'t because some of these demonstrators are so violent.\'\'

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, host of next year\'s summit, said the group would not be deterred from meeting because of the violence.

``There will be no cancellation of the G8,\'\' he said, adding however that he still had not decided where to hold next year\'s meeting.

Protest leaders blamed the death on Italian authorities\' \'\'zero tolerance\'\' toward protesters.

``This was a police provocation to discredit the movement,\'\' said French anti-globalization activist Jose Bove.

``They are a bunch of murderers,\'\' Greek activist Petros Konstantinou told Reuters.

Some protests were as close as 300 yards from the Ducal Palace where a beaming Berlusconi hosted leaders for a sumptuous lunch and discussions on the world economy.

Safe behind the anti-riot ramparts, leaders of the United States, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Canada reached an upbeat consensus on the stumbling world economy.

``While the global economy has slowed more than expected over the past year, sound economic policies and fundamentals provide a solid foundation for stronger growth,\'\' they said in a joint statement.


DEMONSTRATORS NOT IMPRESSED

Their optimism did not impress the tens of thousands of activists -- a volatile mix of anarchists, leftists and anti-poverty campaigners -- who converged on this crowded port city to demand immediate debt relief for the Third World and an end to uncontrolled globalization.

Thousands of protesters with banners reading ``Zero Debt\'\' and ``People Not Profits\'\' lobbed petrol bombs, broke shop windows and torched cars and garbage dumpsters.

Police fired tear gas and water cannon to hold back crowds which either defied them or reassembled elsewhere in the city.

Genoa\'s Mayor Giuseppe Pericu urged crowds at one city square to stand aside to allow police to pursue ``the groups of hoodlums who are destroying our city.\'\'

His words fell on deaf ears.

At one point a group of 200 hard-core protesters besieged a local prison, shattering the windows and throwing a petrol bomb inside. Smoke billowed out, but demonstrators left the area after prison guards appeared on the wall above the street.

Genoa has been bracing for weeks against the kind of violent anti-globalization protests that have disrupted nearly every major international meeting for the past two years.

Surface-to-air missiles were placed at the city\'s airport to guard against any possible air attack and authorities threw up 20-foot barricades around the red zone to stop demonstrators from getting near the leaders.

Italy said pledges for the creation of an international AIDS fund with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had reached $1.3 billion and could rise to $2 billion by the end of the year.

``$1.3 billion has been pledged and the hope is that the fund will reach between $1.7-2.0 billion by the end of the year,\'\' Prime Minister Berlusconi\'s spokesman told reporters.

He said the cash would be entrusted to a special task force, closely linked to the United Nations and its agencies.

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Cincinnati Boycott Against Economic Apartheid.
http://www.cincyboycott.org/

Cincinnati March for Justice:
http://www.cincymarch.org
There are many Cincinnati March for Justice
photos, reports, audio, video, etc at:
Ohio Valley Indymedia
http://ohiovalleyimc.org
San Francisco Indymedia
http://sf.indymedia.org/
Prisons and Police Brutality IMC
http://sf.indymedia.org/features/police/
Chicago Indymedia
http://chicago.indymedia.org/
and Global Indymedia
http://www.indymedia.org
10 pages (and growing) of great photos:
http://www.booksellersunion.org/cincinnati

Video, audio, text, photos, breaking news and more about the Cincinnati Ohio protests, April 7 2001 Timothy Thomas killing by police, rebellion, uprising, civil disobedience, riots, investigations, politics, racial profiling, police brutality, police rampages, beanbag (METAL PELLETS - BUCKSHOT IN A BAG) and rubber/plastic bullet injuries and hospitalizations, etc.. There have been 4 killings of blacks (one by asphyxiation - Roger Owensby) by Cincinnati police since November 2000. 2 of the 4 were unarmed. That\'s 50 percent, folks! 5 blacks have been killed since September 2000. 15 blacks killed by Cincinnati police since 1995 (16 if William Wilder is included). No whites killed. Cincinnati police chief Thomas Streicher himself killed an unarmed suspect in 1980! In Cincinnati there is NO local, independent, police review board with SUBPOENA power. The Cincinnati police are OUT-OF-CONTROL of civilian authority. A civilian President controls the military, but the Cincinnati police make their own laws?! A LOCAL POLICE STATE, where the white police union leader, Keith Fangman, regularly spouts off his rightwing, and sometimes racist (whether the dumbass knows it or not), opinions on a 50,000 watt, clear-channel, AM hate-radio, race-baiting, talk radio, call-in station (WLW 700 AM) that sometimes can be heard across 38 states. Corporate and progressive news URLs:
http://1230thebuzz.com/ --1230 AM. WDBZ. Cincinnati black talk radio. 1000 watts.
http://www.citybeat.com --Alternative weekly. CityBeat.
http://www.cincinow.com --TV 9. Video, audio, text, photos.
http://www.channelcincinnati.com --TV 5. Video, audio, text, photos.
http://www.cincynation.com --Various news sources compiled.
http://enquirer.com --Cincinnati Enquirer.
http://www.cincypost.com --Cincinnati Post.
http://www.cincinow.com/specials/city_in_distress/news/ --CinciNow unrest archives.
http://www.cincinow.com/specials/city_in_distress/news/video.shtml --Video archives.
http://www.real.com/player --RealPlayer 8 Basic is a free, streaming video, player.
http://www.citybeat.com/current/unrest.shtml --CityBeat unrest archives.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Local/Cincinnati_Riots/ --Yahoo Full Coverage.
Stories Of 15 Black Men Killed By Police Since 1995:
http://www.cincinow.com/specials/city_in_distress/news/story46.shtml
At the bottom of the AP and Reuters newswire pages is a dropdown menu to select news from previous days. Check for Cincinnati news:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ts/nm/?u --Reuters.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ts/ap/?u --Associated Press (AP).
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/index.html -- Off The Wire. Raw news.
http://ovimc.org --Ohio Valley Independent Media Center has many Cincinnati Unrest articles on the homepage and/or in the archives. To see more, click the \"display all articles\" link at the bottom right, and then keep clicking \"display next articles.\" Post your articles! Links (full URLS starting with http) found in posted articles are made clickable.

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All of the article above (with all the links in clickable form) is also posted at Ohio Valley Indymedia at this location:
http://ohiovalleyimc.org/cgi-bin/imc.pl?where=display&article=661