[G8-Brasil] Sao Paulo protest report

Others with their faces covered remembered the confront with the police, at that same place, on past mayday. The tension was growing, everybody could see that were way more police than proteters, then two women from different groups came out with a simular argument: - I am not here to fight with the police and my goal isn't to appear on the mainstream media.

The idea was to decide right there what they would do. After a lot of confusion and disorder during the creation of defense for proposals, people came out that they would march till the Central Bank. One way of the Paulista avenue was taken, with a mass of police officers following it, some on motorcycles tried to liberate a line on the avenue, they were able to do it, but only for 5 minutes, the people took back all the road.

The lack of a minimal organization really madded it bad for the protest, the march passed by the Central Bank and didn't stopped, the people who were in the middle started to call the people from the front to come back, but in this going and comming, people ended up marching forward.

Everybody knew how that would end up

When we passed by a Mc Donald's...guess? You right!One of the punks dressed up as clowns in a very calm way (and I am not being ironic) broke two windows. Then it was the happiness for the cops, they came with bombs of gas and 'moral effect' [1].

The protesters dispersed, one part went forward through Paulista, the other entered a mall Center 3, and the rest was devided to the lef and right side of Augusta street. The ones who keep on going on Paulista, broke the windows of Santander bank and almost all Sudameris bank, then later they started to dance between the tear gas and the rubber bullets, which looked like a mirage, you couldn't believe it, the guys dancing in a rain of rubber bullets, I could only see that it was for real when one of them failed on the ground.

The group who entered Center 3, together with the tear gas smoke, mixed themselves with the customers, the police entered the mall... After every thing was calm down, there were a lot of people mad with the police violence.

It was unusual, to see the white middle class protesting against the police violence, which started to grown more when the mainstream media arrived. This one, basically, choose to interview them. A doctor who were helping the people who were hurt, and an old man saying that the police was very brutal, and a young guy who was saying that the police arrested people who were not involved with the protest (the problem is that the punk style is the fashion nowadays!).

A lot of people were arrested, more than 20 for sure, the majority are at the 4 DP (police station), at Consolacao ave., and it looks like that the rest are at the 76 DP, at the Jardins.

I met some punks at the bus stop and I could see what the rubber bullets can do, they would exhibit their wounds, and they were not regretted, is part of the life of a punk kid from the periferia.[2]

[1] What bombs of efeito moral does is to make a lot of noise and throw little pieces of itself around while it explodes. Many of this bombs have caused serious wound on people, who had to suffer operations and some causing injuries for the rest of their life's.

[2] Poor neighborhoods around the city of Sao Paulo.