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butchersapron
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Sky news showing rubber bullets (and poss sort of other things- prob stun grenades and tear gas) now being fired live at peaceful in barcelona now. About to kick off big right this minute. Can hear them being fired over and over in the background.
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cupid_stunt
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I am watching Euronews, there's a lot of bangs going off, sounds like gunfire.
ETA - They've just switched to a different feed.
ETA - They've just switched to a different feed.
butchersapron
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Sky news were filming right by it when it started - police had been kettled and resorted to rubber bullets to unkettle, then they carried on when people scattered. Well over the top. They weren't about to be lynched.
Pickman's model
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That may be on the cards later on
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
This was just after they had broke out:
butchersapron
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Still going on in the background of sky news bang bang...bang
butchersapron
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First rubber bullets fired in Barcelona since 2014 after the much more cuddly catalan police took out a final total of seven peoples eyes and were then banned from using them.
Catalan News Agency live feed:
Catalan News
A key moment would be Mossos defending the polling stations from the Guardia Civil.
Catalan News
A key moment would be Mossos defending the polling stations from the Guardia Civil.
andysays
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J Ed
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Fuck, they're not messing. BBC newsreader has just said 'voters clash with riot police' on the headlines which is an interesting use of subject and object
Clash an interesting euphemism for 'a tiny minority faintly shoving back after being pushed'.
butchersapron
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It was seven diff occasions - each time the catalan police fired them into someones eyes and took an eye out. The last one was the 2012 general strike. Thy do still have foam bullets which also take peoples eyes out. As does the water cannons they also have.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
It would indeed.
RT reporting that Guardia Civil are blaming their violence approach on the inaction of Mossos.
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
Journos are reporting this as them being banned outright in Catalonia rather than just by the Mossos.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yes they are.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Rubber bullets are supposed to be fired into the ground and bounce up into the legs:
andysays
Love and solidarity
Thanks. Sounds like it's a serious escalation, but not an unprecedented one.
Threshers_Flail
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Fucking wankers. Good luck trying to blame any violence on the protesters.
Threshers_Flail
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The behaviour of PP and the Guardia Civil is an absolute gift to the independistas.
andysays
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Fuck, they're not messing. BBC newsreader has just said 'voters clash with riot police' on the headlines which is an interesting use of subject and object
According to the BBC, it's always voters/strikers/demonstrators/random members of the public who clash with police, never the other way round. I think it's in their charter or something
butchersapron
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Of mainstream media sky news.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Sky & RT seem to be offering good coverage, breaking to other stories every so often, Euronews is running a non-stop feed, but little in the way of actual reporting.
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