Thursday, August 10, 2006

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ACTUAL CNN HEADLINE: Cop: Sorry for joking about woman shot in head

A high-ranking sheriff's officer apologized Wednesday for insensitive comments he and other officers made about demonstrators after a free-trade summit in 2003 in Miami.
The comments wound up in a police training video produced a day later. The video shows Maj. John Brooks and other officers praising each other for shooting protesters with rubber bullets.
"Looking back at the tape, in hindsight, I shouldn't have said those things," Brooks said in a report published Wednesday night on The Miami Herald's Web site.

Broward County Sheriff's officials said no one would face disciplinary action in connection with the training video.
A civilian investigative panel last week concluded that police indiscriminately used stun guns, tear gas and other weapons and unlawfully arrested and searched protesters during massive demonstrations at the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting.
One protester, Elizabeth Ritter, contends she was unjustifiably shot with rubber bullets while she stood in front of riot gear-clad police. A video recorded the day of the protests shows Ritter cowering under a sign while being pelted with bullets. One bullet pierced the sign and struck her in the head.


(Emphasis, while hopefully not necessary to provoke outrage, is mine.)
I highly recommend checking out the video that accompanies this article on cnn.com.

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