A new act of urban violence altered the calm in the neighborhood Retreat Villa from the city of Cordova. On Sunday morning, a group of Neighbors confronted the Police while a man was arrested for having evaded a checkpoint.
According to the official report, a 32-year-old young man was driving a Renault 12 car and rebuked police officers who were carrying out a preventive cut on the corner of Rancagua Avenue and Dr. Orlando Severo Melone for a fire in the sector.
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After crossing with the uniformed officers, the person involved evaded the checkpoint and was detained in block 15, lot 14, after a controlled follow-up. The three people who accompanied him in the vehicle managed to escape.
At the time of the subject’s arrest, Local residents threw stones and debris at the police.so the personnel involved repelled the action by using less lethal weapons.
In the images that he could access ElDoce.tv, you can see the crossing between those close to the detainee and the security forces. Both the strong elements they received and their rubber bullets and shots from non-lethal weapons.
Due to the attack by the inhabitants of the sector, an officer had to be transferred to the Police Polyclinic with a cutting wound and tooth displacement. For their part, the neighbors assured that the uniformed officers used excessive force and that “They beat him a lot and when they took him away they beat him a lot more”. According to his testimony, the young man was transferred to the Apprehended Containment Unit (UCA).
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