Joe La Sac, whose "Film is NOT a Crime" gained him fame this week as a videographer, posted on YouTube on Saturday two minutes of video entitled "Give Peace a Chance — Tacoma Police Riot."  --  The film, made in the early morning hours of Sat., Mar. 10, 2007, shows police firing tear gas cannisters on a peaceful, tranquil crowd, and then, seconds later, unprovoked and without warning, firing what are apparently rapid-fire rubber bullets into a crowd of peaceful protesters who are doing nothing but sitting in a road.  --  (Earlier on the previous day, police had cordoned off Milwaukee Way and 11th Ave. to provide a protected access road for the Stryker vehicles from lot where they have been sitting and the docks, so the individuals in the film were not blocking their movement.  --  No warning to the crowd of any kind appears to have been given; the first firing appears to come from the back of the police lines.  --  Several protesters are seen having violent physical reaction to tear gas.  --  "Do you realize you just fired on people who were sitting peacefully in the street?" shouts a man, incensed.  --  "What the fuck are you doing?  You just shot me in the head with rubber bullets!  What the fuck are you doing?  I'm a citizen of this fucking country!  Who the fuck are you . . . ?"  --  Even before this incident, the aggressive behavior of Tacoma police had made evident the need for a formal investigation.  --  This is now a matter of pressing urgency.  --  Once again citizens owe a debt of gratitude to independent videographer Joe La Sac, a student at the University of Puget Sound....

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GIVE PEACE A CHANCE -- TACOMA POLICE RIOT
By Joe La Sac

YouTube
March 10, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfhUaUuG1sM

Protesters tear-gassed several times.  Confrontations had happened all night long between protesters and riot police.