Right now in Rome, hundreds of highly dangerous, vicious, hooded, masked protesters rampaged through Rome in some of the most terrifying violence in the Italian capital for years and years, Saturday, madly torching cars and shattering windows during a more huger peaceful protest against elites blamed for economic downturn.
Police repeatedly fired tear gas and water cannon in attempts to disperse them but the clashes with a minority of violent demonstrators stretched into the evening, just hours after tens of thousands of people in Rome joined a global "day of rage" against bankers and politicians.
Sizzling smoke flooded over numerous parts of the chaosed neighborhood between the Colosseum and St John's Basilica, forcing many residents and peaceful demonstrators to race into buildings and churches for shelter as militant protesters ran wild.
After police managed to shove the well-organized radicals away from the St. John's area, they ravaged a major thoroughfare, the Via Merulana — building barricades with garbage cans and setting the netting of the scaffolding of a building flaming, on fire.
Discontent is smoldering in Italy over high unemployment, political paralysis and a whoppin'60 billion euros ($83 billion) of austerity measures that have raised taxes and the cost of health care.
The violence at times resembled urban guerrilla warfare as protesters chucked, and hurled sharp rocks, giant bottles and bursting fireworks at police, who responded by repeatedly charging the demonstrators.
Around 70 people were very injured, according to updated news reports, including one man who tried to force the strange, vicious, dangerous protesters from chucking bottles. It kills me to think that people are this un-caring.
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