MIAMIANS VENT IRE AT TAKING, 268 HELD OFFICIALS ASK FOR CALM AS PROTESTS SPREAD PAST `LITTLE HAVANA REGION Edition

Five months of pent-up passion spilled over yesterday into a bitter daylong series of seesaw clashes in the streets of Little Havana between hundreds of protesters and nearly as many police in full riot gear. Demonstrators, outraged at the seizure of Elian Gonzalez by a gun- toting federal SWAT team...

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Published inPittsburgh post-gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa. 1978)
Main Author SANDRA MARQUEZ GARCIA, TYLER BRIDGES AND CURTIS MORGAN, THE MIAMI HERALD
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pittsburgh, Pa Pittsburgh Post - Gazette 23.04.2000
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Summary:Five months of pent-up passion spilled over yesterday into a bitter daylong series of seesaw clashes in the streets of Little Havana between hundreds of protesters and nearly as many police in full riot gear. Demonstrators, outraged at the seizure of Elian Gonzalez by a gun- toting federal SWAT team, shouted, wept, waved flags and signs and -- in isolated angrier outbreaks -- blocked traffic, threw rocks, overturned bus benches and torched tires and trash bins. Police met them fast and forcefully -- some say too forcefully -- pumping tear gas canisters into crowds and hauling off dozens in handcuffs. "[President] Clinton, Miami is burning!" protesters chanted around a bonfire built of old tires, a trash bin load of cardboard boxes and a shredded Florida lottery billboard at Flagler Street and Northwest 27th Avenue, an intersection blocks from the home where Elian was snatched before dawn.
ISSN:1068-624X