Colo. Springs cops beat the crap out of elderly peace marchers
via Raw Story | Colorado Confidential | St. Paddy's Parade Turns Ugly In Colorado Springs
IPhotos show Fineron, who ordinarily walks with the assistance of a cane, subsequently being dragged across the street. Verlo, a Colorado Springs businessman and chairman of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, was pushed face down on the street, and handcuffed. Police seized control of his bookmobile, at least temporarily, and drove it away from the parade....
One cop kneed a woman in the groin as she lay on the ground. Another broke a wooden peace sign that one of the participants had been carrying. One photo shows a cop with his arm around the neck of a retired priest, Frank Cordaro, in an apparent chokehold. In another shot a cop hoists a Taser....
"Peace was too controversial for the parade," said Jim White, the interim director of the PPJPC and the retired pastor at Colorado Springs' First Congregational Church. "I didn’t get to see what happened, but I talked to people at church this morning and they said it was horrible. People were crying, children were crying.
"It was clearly police brutality. The people I talked to just couldn’t believe what happened."
