: ~ : LA NUEVA GRANADA : ~ :
~ 23 January 1828 ::: ~ ::: Publicación #6 ~
Violent Police breaks up Protests about Racial Tensions
Tonio Peinado
BIB-RAMBLA, Nueva Granada - A peaceful protest outside a local police station advocating for better rights and lives for the mestizos has been violently repressed by the police members in the area.
La Nueva Granada understands that hundreds of people organised beforehand to protest outside of this station, a crowd which only grew larger. More police reinforcements arrived thereafter.
It is unclear about the exact details about the escalation, in particular the source thereof; however, protestors gradually hurled small stones at the feet of police officers. Whether this was done in an offensive or defensive manner remains speculative. However, soon the band of policemen started to beat up some sections of the protest, until a gunshot was heard. The pretext or timing in which this firing occurred is also unclear.
The protest group tried to flee en masse, and some of them were tragically shot in the back. The protest ended 3 hours after it began.
One cannot help in these days to be reminded of the tragic cases of Colonel Leonardo Infante and General Manuel Piar who were both unduly killed in previous instances of racial outrage.
Victims were buried en masse in a ceremony performed by clergy over the next two days. Grieving family members, all mestizos, were seen to be at the foot of these graves.
Sources allege a decentralised mestizos movement more emboldened to continue taking up against the criollos to secure better living rights, with a small militant faction shaping up.
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