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TPP Activist Violently Arrested Outside Senator Orrin Hatch’s Office
http://revolution-news.com/utah-tpp-activist-violently-arrested-outside-senator-orrin-hatchs-office/
SALT LAKE CITY—A protester was slammed to the ground violently and suffered repeated blows to the back after three security officer subdued him at a demonstration against the TPP Trans~Pacific Partnership.
“We were there just to do a very peaceful protest against the TPP and this whole thing just took us completely by surprise and I was shocked,” said an fellow demonstrator who witnessed the attack. “It was such a brutal response from these officers; so violent. It seems way overkill and uncalled for.”
“The [officer] approached very aggressively, and directed [Trepanier off of the plaza,” the witness said. Trepanier insisted that he needed his property but the officer persisted.
“All the sudden that officer and another officer started to assault Lionel really violently. They manhandled him and wrestled him to the ground. His face was jammed into the cement. He was prostrate on the ground and immobilized—utterly no threat what so ever—and they started punching Lionel very aggressively … punching him in the back of the rib cage repeatedly.”
Trepanier was handcuffed and despite having a bleeding wound on his forehead, he had to yell to his fellow activists on the sidewalk to request medical services. Trepanier never lost consciousness. He was taken to LDS Hospital emergency room after medical personnel arrived.
http://revolution-news.com/utah-tpp-activist-violently-arrested-outside-senator-orrin-hatchs-office/
SALT LAKE CITY—A protester was slammed to the ground violently and suffered repeated blows to the back after three security officer subdued him at a demonstration against the TPP Trans~Pacific Partnership.
“We were there just to do a very peaceful protest against the TPP and this whole thing just took us completely by surprise and I was shocked,” said an fellow demonstrator who witnessed the attack. “It was such a brutal response from these officers; so violent. It seems way overkill and uncalled for.”
“The [officer] approached very aggressively, and directed [Trepanier off of the plaza,” the witness said. Trepanier insisted that he needed his property but the officer persisted.
“All the sudden that officer and another officer started to assault Lionel really violently. They manhandled him and wrestled him to the ground. His face was jammed into the cement. He was prostrate on the ground and immobilized—utterly no threat what so ever—and they started punching Lionel very aggressively … punching him in the back of the rib cage repeatedly.”
Trepanier was handcuffed and despite having a bleeding wound on his forehead, he had to yell to his fellow activists on the sidewalk to request medical services. Trepanier never lost consciousness. He was taken to LDS Hospital emergency room after medical personnel arrived.
