CANADA: ANTI-CAPITALIST ACTIVISTS CLASH WITH POLICE BUT FAIL TO STOP FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETINGS

Record ID: 567155

  • Title: CANADA: ANTI-CAPITALIST ACTIVISTS CLASH WITH POLICE BUT FAIL TO STOP FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETINGS
  • Date: 6th June 2000
  • Summary: WINDSOR, CANADA (JUNE 4, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV ZOOM OUT WINDSOR CITY SKYLINE WITH FLAGS OF OAS MEMBER NATIONS 0.14 2. SCU FLAGS IN FRONT OF BUILDING WHERE OAS MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE; AV HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD (2 SHOTS) 0.25 3. MV WOMEN MARCHING, CHANTING AND CARRYING SIGNS; PROTESTER DRESSED AS SKELETON; PROTESTERS (4 SHOTS) 0.54 4. SCU POLICE OFFICER STANDING ALONE, AS LARGE CROWD OF DEMONSTRATORS MARCH BY 1.06 5. SCU MAN CARRYING FLAG OF FORMER SOVIET UNION 1.15 6. SLV DEMONSTRATORS PUSH AGAINST FENCE WITH SIGNS, POLICE USE PEPPER SPRAY AGAINST THEM (2 SHOTS) 1.40 7. SCU MAN IN CROWD WITH GAS MASK ON 1.48 8. SLV POLICE OFFICER PICKING UP BURNING DEBRIS THROWN OVER FENCE 1.58 9. SLV PAN LARGE CROWD OF DEMONSTRATORS 2.07 10. MV RIOT POLICE IN FULL RIOT GEAR WITH BATONS AND SHIELDS MARCHING BY AND HITTING THEIR SHIELDS WITH THEIR BATONS AND RUNNING TOWARDS BARRIER 2.36 11. SLV POLICE RESTRAIN ARRESTED DEMONSTRATOR ON GROUND; SLV MORE DEMONSTRATORS RESTRAINED ON GROUND (2 SHOTS) 2.49 12. SCU ARRESTED WOMAN WITH HANDS BEHIND HER BACK; MV ARRESTED WOMAN LED AWAY SHOUTING PAN TO MAN CARRIED AWAY; SLV ARRESTED MAN PLACED ON GROUND; SCU ARRESTED MAN ON GROUND AS POLICE OFFICER CHECKS HIS PULSE (4 SHOTS) 3.17 13. MV RIOT POLICE AND POLICE DOGS BARKING 3.21 14. SLV POLICE WITH ARRESTEES ON GROUND; SCU ARRESTED WOMAN SITTING WITH HER EYES CLOSED ZOOM OUT (3 SHOTS) 3.47 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st June 2000 13:00
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  • Location: WINDSOR, CANADA
  • Country: Canada
  • Reuters ID: LVAA56O88X8UN8RA8JZEXKBDBVDN
  • Story Text: Anti-capitalist activists have clashed with police,
    but have not succeeded in stopping a meeting of North and
    South American foreign ministers, as they did in Seattle six
    months ago.

    Police fired pepper spray at several protesters on
    Sunday (June 4) who clambered on a perimeter fence to erect a
    giant anti-free-trade banner.Activists hurled smoke bombs,
    placards and at least one bottle over the fence at the police.

    The demonstration of 2,000 to 3,000 protesters was mainly
    peaceful, though the activists also verbally abused lines of
    policemen in riot gear on the other side of 10-foot (3-metre)
    fences.

    An estimated 2,000 policemen were deployed in Windsor to
    ensure the meeting of the 34-nation Organisation of American
    States was not interrupted.A further 4,000 police were on
    standby across the river in Detroit, where a 200 to 250 people
    marched noisily, but peacefully.

    The foreign ministers succeeded in leaving the security
    perimeter for discussions at an elegant restaurant and, by
    mid-afternoon, most of the protesters had disbanded.


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