Puerto Rico: cops beat student strikers at Sheraton http://ww4report.com/node/8658
The most violent incident so far in the UPR strike came on May 20 when about 100 students entered the Sheraton Hotel in San Juan's Miramar Convention District to protest Gov. Fortuño's presence at a fundraising dinner for the conservative New Progressive Party (PNP).
The protesters sang and displayed banners in the entrance and then tried to go to the second floor, where the dinner was taking place. The riot police responded by beating protesters and spraying tear gas. Several people were injured, including union leaders Luisa Acevedo and José "Lole" Rodríguez Báez, and the daughter of actor Eugenio Monclova. The police grabbed a woman sitting near the entrance, apparently a tourist, and roughed her up
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