Name: Chilean Police Are Blinding Protesters: We Spoke to the Injured | The Dispatch
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T17:06:33.000Z
Duration: 6 min 26 s
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this has been the scene on the streets of Santiago, Chile.

Protesters say they're fed up with growing inequality.

Most come out in peace but they're met with force,

Chile is supposed to be one of Latin America's more

stable democracies, a model for success since the country's

the security tactics haven't changed all that much.

Police have fired pellets and rubber bullets.

These rounds are often shot at close range, hitting people

where they can do maximum damage: the eyes.

More than 180 protesters have been partly blinded.

into the eye trauma unit of a public hospital.

what doctors see here as an epidemic of eye trauma.

Later, my official request to the minister and to the police

After all, it was Chile's president, Sebastian Piñera,

who set the stage for the violent clampdown.

Many of the victims say they were not acting aggressively

All they can do now is file a lawsuit and wait.

The police violence hasn't deterred people

A few days after I met him in the hospital

taking care to protect his face and eyes from tear gas.

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Chilean Police Are Blinding Protesters: We Spoke to the Injured | The Dispatch

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