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St. Paul police brutality claim being settled for $270,000
The city of St. Paul will pay a St. Paul woman $270,000 to settle an alleged case of police brutality under a proposed agreement expected to be approved today by the city council.

The plaintiff, Cosetta Morris, 35, maintained that an officer used excessive force when he attempted to break up her domestic dispute with her roommate and tossed Morris across the room, causing her arm to go through a glass door. She needed surgery to repair tendon damage. The city has admitted no wrongdoing.

The payout is one of St. Paul's larger, though not the largest, settlements of a police ... Read more

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SCENES of dazed and bloodied protesters lying on hospital trollies after being hit by rubber bullets provoked national outrage in Hungary yesterday.
The images were broadcast as Budapest awoke angry and shocked after commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the 1956 uprising sparked the worst violence since the anti-Soviet revolt.

Opposition Fidesz MPs demanded an inquiry after police forced a minority of hooligans into the main peaceful demonstration, organised by the party, where tens of thousands of protesters had gathered. The move caused chaos and panic as families and the elderly found themselves choking on teargas and fleeing from fusillades of rubber bullets — the first time they had been used in Hungary.



Police said that 131 people had been arrested and the number was likely to rise. About 167 people were injured, including ten policemen and a Fidesz MP. Protesters accused the police of widespread brutality. Fighting between police and protesters continued until the early hours yesterday. Witnesses said that officers fired fusillades of rubber bullets at the crowd, and police aimed teargas canisters directly at people.

Sebestyen Gorka, the director of the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security, said: “Nobody could commemorate the martyrs of 1956 except foreign dignitaries, people working for the Government, policemen and secret police officers. Even under communism the Government never deployed teargas and rubber bullets.”

Ferenc Gyurcsány, the Socialist Prime Minister, blamed the Fidesz leader Viktor Orban for encouraging the violence.
 

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