Good morning from Bogota, Colombia! Where 11 people have been killed and 400 injured in ongoing protests against police brutality. This pic is from a feminist demo yesterday at the Sanitas Clinic, where a feminist protest against a doctor there accused of rape lasted until eve

There was some redecorating of shields and some skirmished before ESMAD (the riot squad) lost their patience and attacked a bunch of young women

BRAVE!

For the last two nights, people around the city have gathered near mini-police stations, over a dozen have been burned, but more have been "redecorated". Protests are the most concentrated in the North of the city, in a working class neighborhood called Suba

I will be headed north this afternoon to go chat w some people there. Meanwhile, a couple DLSR pics from last night

Left: dancing in the fire
Right: the stormtroopers from ESMAD

Both nights of protests, medical officials have treated people who were wounded by live gunfire from police

Ministry of Defense has announced deployment of military but they seem to be mostly a deterrent at gov buildings rather than for crowd control. Just cops responding

"Killer cops" reads the graffiti

Tombos is usually what I hear cops referred to, though I also hear "murderers" and "rapists" a lot. My favorite however is "aguacates" (avocados), based on the lime green uniforms national police wear

Ya vienen los aguacates!!!