Police Captain Pied in Brasil

Friday, October 26th, police capitain Francisco Roher got pied while
attempting to present his master's dissertion thesis at an university in
Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The capitain was the commander of the troop that violently repressed
anti-FTAA protesters on April 20th. As a result of the police operation,
100 people got injured, 69 were arrested, 10 people got tortured at the
police station and one protester got shot by conventional gun.

Capitain Roher is also a graduate student at the PUC Catholic University.
He wrote a thesis about communitary police in which he tries to understand
why is so difficult for police officers formed during the dictatorship to
fit the roles of the "modern" communitary police. The thesis is considered
a "pro" human rights dissertation.

About 150 protesters blockaded the room in which thesis would be presented.
The protest was mainly directed to the university which did not make public
the date and place of the presentation. By doing so, university did the
same thing police did on A20: prevented protesters to have their voices heard.

After the blockade, protesters surrounded the capitain. A group of
anarchist students pied him. He had to be locked down in a room for three
hours waiting situation to calm down.

He left university surrounded by gards and by a crowd of one hundred
shouting "Fascist!", "Torturer!", "Hipocrite!" and "Coward!"

For picture go to:
http://www.midiaindependente.org/display.php3?article_id=9233&group=webcast