Chilean police officers set on fire by Molotov cocktails
Aislinn Laing
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Reuters photographers covering protests in the central Santiago rallying point of Plaza Italia were getting ready to capture images on Monday as the police set about clearing the square for the evening.
Jorge Silva, Reuters chief photographer in South East Asia, has been in Chile covering the protests that started two weeks ago over public transport fare hikes and broadened into often violent demonstrations over inequality in one of Latin America’s richest nations.
He was standing close to the Baquedano metro station that has remained shuttered amid arson attacks, and watched as police tried to drive protesters away from a broad avenue leading out of the square.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-protests-image/chilean-police-officers-set-on-fire-by-molotov-cocktails-idUSKBN1XG19Y
There is actually a photo of this at the link, I don't think posting photos of the violence is proper forum etiquette, however, Reuters does have it. One can see the poor female police officer, hopefully, she can recover from this. Horrifying.
