A Californian economist loves neoliberalism. When Chileans started protesting it, he opened fire on

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19. US citizen arrested

Lunes 11 noviembre de 2019
Publicado a las 12:03 · Actualizado a las 15:02
Por Emilio Lara

... “In order to defend myself, I took my gun out and loaded it (…) and prepared myself for being assaulted. I don’t remember all the circumstances exactly, but I had to actually fire two shots at first before they all started coming running after me when I had to stop again and shot twice again.”

“I accidentally, apparently, hit somebody in the thigh. A man, I don’t know who that is. Now the police are telling me I have to be at fear of my own life”, he added ...

... civilians in Chile cannot take their registered guns to the street, as the Uniformed Armed Police is the only public entity allowed to do so ...

Cobin is a highly controversial figure ... He <has> praised Augusto Pinochet’s legacy .. and highlighted the economic reforms introduced by the so-called Chicago Boys, the same initiatives currently critised by Chileans.

https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/biobiochile-english/english-chile/2019/11/11/us-citizen-arrested-in-chile-after-shooting-protestors-claiming-self-defense.shtml

A white supremacist neo-confederate American libertarian fan of Pinochet who shoots into crowds of Chileans who might disagree with him! He's the perfect Republican posterchild!