Video camera rolls protesters clash with Tacoma Police

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On Edit: this is a second video I found on YouTUBE! YIKES!

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Video camera rolls as war protesters clash with Tacoma Police

06:18 PM PST on Saturday, March 10, 2007

BERNARD CHOI / KING 5 News



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Police said tear gas was used because protesters began throwing barricades.

TACOMA - Tacoma Police officers set up barricades at the Port of Tacoma on Saturday afternoon in preparation for another round of anti-war protests.

Nearly 200 protesters gathered Friday night when things got out of hand at about 2:30 a.m.

Home video shows a peaceful demonstration, with people sitting down, singing songs, but then police fired several canisters of tear gas toward the crowd.

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A University of Puget Sound student, who was filming the protest, was caught up in the frenzy and started choking from the gas.

"You can't breathe, you feel like your airway's just kind of restricted up, so you're just gasping for air," he said.

One demonstrator said it was just a chaotic scene.

"There was a lot of smoke, a lot of flaming things flying everywhere and the police started marching on the protesters and the protesters all retreated," he said.

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Video here:
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