Georgian riot police storm independant TV station
This hasn’t had much news coverage here, but the Georgian government is in the process of violently cracking down on anti-government protests. The president, Mikhail Saakashvili, has declared a state of emergency and issued a declaration banning demonstrations and protests of all kinds. Riot police have been deployed and used tear-gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrations, leaving at least a hundred hospitalised.
The independent TV station, Imedi, broadcast images of the crackdown, prompting riot police to storm the building and take the channel off the air. The station’s final minutes are available on YouTube, although the clip is (obviously) in Georgian.
Georgian riot police storm independant TV station by Will Goring, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
The also have some fairly disturbing Disney riot gear
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/08/georgian-riot-cops-i.html
Ok — that is freaky.