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On February 9, 2011, in the midst of an ongoing student-led strike against state and university officials' efforts to shrink and privatize the University of Puerto Rico (upr) system, students at the university's flagship campus in Río Piedras or ga nized a "pintata," or paint-in, as an artistic protest against administrators' attempts to silence them with police intervention. An event in which students planned to spend the after noon painting messages of re sis tance on the street in front of the university library ended unexpectedly as one of the most violent moments of the strike.With the pintata under way, students became outraged when they spotted a police officer videotaping the activity. A group of students approached the officer and asked why they were being recorded when they were not doing anything wrong and demanded to know what the police planned to do with the video. 1 Almost immediately the situation grew tense, as the students insisted on answers and more police arrived on the scene. Eventually, one of the students attempted to take the camera from the officer, and the situation turned violent. Metal-tipped batons, boots, and fists rained down upon the protesters, som

Author

Marisol LeBrón

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN