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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Police gas demonstrators NOLA housing protest

AP reports a disturbance at city hall:
Police used chemical spray and stun devices Thursday as dozens of protesters seeking to halt the demolition of public housing in New Orleans tried to force their way through an iron gate at City Hall.

Some were arrested as officers tried to establish order and an ambulance arrived on the scene. It was unclear whether there were injuries or the ambulance was a precautionary measure.
According to the article, the trouble started when the city council chambers reached capacity and the overflow crowd, there to protest council approval of a HUD plan to demolish public housing, took took their protest outside.

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