Venezuela student killed, on camera, by Maduro's brownshirts [View all]

[GatoGordo]

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How do you spin this, Maduro apologists?

“It’s an heroic effort worth praising,” was the phrase Nicolás used yesterday to describe the repressive streak of his forces during protests, claiming before international media that the officers disperse demonstrations with water and “a little tear-gas,” without firearms, shotguns or pellets.

Shortly after that, in the Francisco Fajardo highway in front of La Carlota air base, a soldier shot 22-year Nursing student David José Vallenilla at close range. Three pellets in the thorax. The boy died after having been taken to Clínica El Ávila.

Every video out there proves that the soldier shot David with rage several times. It wasn’t a dissuasive exercise, he didn’t aim at the legs but at the chest, every time, even when David had was already on the ground.

It’s not necessary to kill to restore public order, but Interior minister Néstor Reverol started his set of tweets reporting the alleged “recurrent siege against La Carlota air base” – he uses the word ‘siege’ as glibly as he uses ‘terrorist’ – and urged the MUD to “disband violent groups,” once again emphasizing that responsibility is individual before the law, as if security forces didn’t answer to him and superiors weren’t accountable as well."

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https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/06/23/shot-down-at-la-carlota/