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By Robert Mackey, The Lede @ nytimes.com, June 18, 2013
Includes lots of images and videos.
Last Updated, 6:57 p.m. As my colleague Simon Romero reports from São Paulo, more than 200,000 Brazilians filled the streets in cities across the country on Monday to protest the high cost of living and lavish spending on soccer stadiums ahead of next year’s World Cup, in demonstrations that have intensified as images of police brutality against peaceful protesters spread on social networks. [....]
Also see:
Intense video: protesters storming Rio de Janeiro's legislature w/ Molotov cocktails & rocks http://t.co/obO8bqUsuF
— Simon Romero (@viaSimonRomero) June 18, 2013
and I think his description of it as "intense" is an understatement. It looks like a revolution scene from a Hollywood movie. There are more than a few Molotov cocktails shown exploding right on the front steps,and then the "storming." At the end of the tape, there is also a violent attack on a lone cop on a somewhat empty street, and then people tending to a protester that was counter attacked? The latter street scenes do not involve a large crowd but does give one an idea of the chaos going on on the sidelines at night.
Comments
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/20/2013 - 10:54pm
As someone who has always been disturbed by excessive mania for professional team sports, I definitely approve of the following turn of events:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/22/2013 - 4:57pm
Ronaldo, whose name is Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, now a television commentator and sports marketing strategist, contending that World Cups are accomplished “with stadiums, not hospitals.”
Really people, get your priorities straight. What's more important, winning the world cup or saving people's lives? Its time to "forget the protests" and focus on the real problem in Brazil.
On the field, the national team finds itself in the doldrums, dropping to a historical low of No. 22 in the FIFA rankings.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 06/22/2013 - 5:03pm