Looking through my RSS tab, I found a post on GlobalVoices. It was about the riots that took place in Athens in December. When I first saw the title of the post, I was thinking that the government had done something wrong to tick of the people of Athens but it ended up to be about people in protest at the shooting by a police officer of 15-year old boy.
Here is some of the things that people did in Athens. I got this information from GlobalVoices Online.
‘In central Athens, protesters, including high school and university students and anarchists, have battled riot police, smashing shop windows, burning vehicles, throwing petrol bombs and Molotov cocktails and setting public buildings on fire.’
This must have been something very important to the people of Athens because they took it to such a violent level. I think that this was scary for the people of Athens. I don’t understand why the people got so violent though.
- Brianna
Here is some videos I found on Youtube.
I heard about the shooting, but not about the riot.
What happened to the people that participated in the riot, and what was the police’s position on the issue. Those are my questions.
Great blog, it got me to think more on action and consequence.