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2021-05-08 Caribbean-Latin America
ACAB: Terrorist Mobs Burn Police Alive in Colombia
[Breitbart] Terrorist mobs have destroyed 25 police emergency response stations in Bogotá, Colombia, alone as of Wednesday night in a spate of violent attacks nationwide. Eyewitnesses say the assailants were attempting to burn police officers alive and, in some cases, succeeded in setting them on fire.

Colombia is in the midst of what leftist movements are calling a “national strike” against the government, police officers, and authority in general. Some unrest began last week in response to conservative President Iván Duque proposing a large tax hike on most of the country, claiming it necessary to combat the negative economic effects of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Widely panned by a bipartisan coalition that including the head of Duque’s party, former President Álvaro Uribe, the tax reform failed to pass and Duque announced Sunday he would no longer pursue it.

The end of the tax controversy did not stop nationwide protests, however, which turned violent when radical leftists organized on Saturday, a Marxist holiday known as International Workers’ Day. Far-left unions and syndicalist groups have insisted on continuing the “national strike” despite no longer having a political goal or concrete objective. The calls for more protest have resulted in roving mobs attacking police stations, public transit stops, hotels, banks, and civilian residential property in the capital as well as large cities like Cali, Medellín, Barranquilla, and Cartagena.

Photos of the daytime protests preceding the nighttime mob violence show little indication that those involved are concerned about tax hikes. The English-language acronym “ACAB,” or “all cops are bastards,” has become a rallying cry for “protesters.” Many openly advocate attacking and killing police. Also common are offensive depictions of police officers as pigs.

Reports of mobs attempting to burn down populated locations — most of them, but not all, CAI police stations — have emerged nationwide this week. In the western city of Cali, a leftist mob attempted to burn down the La Luna Hotel on Tuesday night. As in Bogotá, where a civilian appeared to save Mahecha, civilians in Cali also organized groups, in some cases armed, to confront the terrorists.

El Tiempo reported Thursday that it had obtained evidence that the mob burnings were coordinated attacks, not spontaneous eruptions of violence. A local official in Bogotá accused leftists of using Facebook to organize attacks, writing messages on the social media site specifically calling for criminals to convene and “burn the CAI” about an hour before a mob convened at a local park on Wednesday. Fearing violence, the local councilmen and other officials went door-to-door urging businesses to shut down. The officials also used Whatsapp to contact state officials asking for law enforcement backup for their local forces, but “no one” answered, they told the newspaper.

The officials also attempted to organize a “human shield” defense of the police station in the Kennedy neighborhood of Bogotá, but were met with a barrage of rocks and stones. A video from Twitter reproduced by the newspaper shows the attack.

In Medellín, a city in Colombia’s mountainous heartland, a leftist mob burned down a highly trafficked Metroplus public transit station, an unprecedented event in the city despite its extremely violent history as a drug trafficking hub in the 1980s and 1990s.

Colombian Attorney General Francisco Barbosa Delgado has accused multiple Marxist terrorist organizations of being behind the violence.

“From Cali, I want to inform the country that, thanks to the investigations by a specialized team of prosecutors … we have determined that [involved in] the disorder and vandalism occurring in Cali in last days there are structures tied to drug trafficking, the ELN, and FARC,” Barbosa said in a video message on Tuesday night. The FARC are the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and ELN are the National Liberation Army, both Marxist narco-terrorist organizations.

Estimates as to the human cost of these leftist riots vary, but at least 20 deaths attributable to the violence have been recorded and over 800 injuries. At least 80 of those injured are journalists attempting to document the reality of the violence, according to the Foundation for Freedom of the Press, a Colombian group.
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