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Several People Are Injured at Chinese Consulate Protest
By John Eligon and Sushil Cheema
The New York Times
Sunday 16 March 2008
A demonstration in front of the Chinese consulate in Midtown Manhattan briefly turned violent on Saturday morning, with protesters throwing rocks at the building as police officers tried to get them off the street, according to demonstrators and the police.
Several people, including three police officers, sustained minor injuries, according to the Fire Department.
The police said there were several arrests.
The violence broke out sometime between 10 and 10:30 a.m., protesters said.
Several people said that there were only a small number of police officers on
the scene when the crowd had started gathering about 9:30.
Within an hour, though, many more officers arrived, protesters said, and when
the police tried to get the demonstrators off 42nd Street and onto the sidewalk,
a scuffle began.
Demonstrators threw rocks at the building, some witnesses said, while the officers
responded with shoving and pepper spray. The police said Saturday afternoon
that they could not confirm what kind of force was used.
The confrontation was short, witnesses said, and the police contained the demonstrators
behind barricades across from the consulate, which is on 42nd Street at the
West Side Highway.
By Saturday afternoon, roughly 80 police officers, some in riot gear, stood
outside the consulate.
A window on the 42nd Street side of the consulate had two holes in it.
The demonstration, which attracted about 1,000 people, was organized Friday
night by several area Tibetan organizations in response to violence on Friday
in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, organizers said.
State media reported that 10 people had been killed in Tibet as Chinese security
forces suppressed demonstrations.
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