Miami FTAA Police Terrorism Hits the Mainstream Media...

What the police are good at is getting and keeping the ear of the mainstream media when there is police violence at protests. As soon as violence breaks out, there's usually a spokesperson repeating the usual tripe - "people were throwing things," "there were anarchists vandalizing things," "the police were defending themselves," lies that are disproven days or weeks later when all the videotape comes out.

But this Salon article destroys that police spin. Michelle Goldberg's article accurately portrays the police in Miami as attacking peaceful protesters and motivated by nothing as much as pure hate.
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