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WNYCNEW YORK, NY June 16, 2007 —The government of the Mexican state of Oaxaca has apologized, for the first time, for a police raid on protesters last year that led to the death of a New York City journalist and activist.
Bradley Roland Will was among a dozen people killed in the conflict. He was killed while filming a clash between demonstrators and authorities last October.
Oaxaca's interior secretary said Friday that the state's governor laments the results of a raid in June of 2006. It was aimed at clearing striking teachers from a protest camp in Oaxaca City's main square. The teachers later drew on leftist allies, who took over the city, erected barricades and chased out police.
Soon after Will's death, Mexico's then president, Vicente Fox, sent federal troops to evict protesters from the city center.
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