The thing hanging from the policeman's waste is called a flail weapon -- Just in case he needs to render a barbaric beat down of the protesters. Probably shouldn't show this picture to the SEIU types, may give them ideas.
Police fired tear gas to chase off thousands of students demonstrating in the capital Friday, a sixth day of protests against President Hugo Chavez for forcing cable and satellite TV providers to cut opposition channels as well as to publicly voice their concerns surrounding the government’s electricity rationing plan for the capital.
Over two thousand students marched to the headquarters of the nationally owned electricity company (Corpoelec) in Caracas, where they were met by a barrage of metropolitan police that opened fire on them with tear gas and rubber bullets, leaving three wounded. The students had earlier changed the course of their march in order to avoid any possibility of confrontation.
Protesters in two other parts of Venezuela, Barquisimeto and Valencia, were also confronted by police and the National Guard. Two students were arrested and “several” retained injuries having been hit with rubber bullets.
Chavez warned that he will not let opposition sectors of Venezuela “burn” the country and warned that “if they continue down that road then [he] will be forced to take radical measures”, although he did not specify what these could be. These words were spoken on the backdrop of six consecutive days of opposition marches that have already left 2 dead.
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