Deaths as Egypt police clash with protesters

[FarCenter]

Thousands of police have clashed with demonstrators for control of downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square, leaving at least one protester dead and 676 others injured, health officials said.

The violence on Saturday comes just nine days before Egypt's first elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the former president, in February.

In scenes reminiscent of the 18-day uprising, protesters and police forces hurled rocks at each other, and crowds swarmed an armored police truck, rocking it and setting it ablaze.

Security officials said that protesters were rallying outside security agency headquarters in the port city of Alexandria as well as the cities of Aswan in the south and Suez on the Red Sea.

Media reports said at least one protester was killed in Alexandria.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/20111119161556860447.html

[Better Believe It]

1. But they are mostly good cops. Don't act like they are a tool of the rich and powerful!

:sarcasm:

[MADem]

2. There are at least two dead as of an hour ago, and hundreds injured. nt

[Fumesucker]

3. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

-John F Kennedy

[tabatha]

4. Twitter

malvernchela
Suzanne I am so tired of watching peaceful demonstrators being attacked in Cairo, New York, Oakland, Homs, etc. ows Tharir Syria Egypt

[riverwalker]

5. photos Tahrir Nov 19

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mosaaberising/sets/72157628055488321/