15 November 2015

Police water-cannons a man to brain damage in a civilian protest

At 'People's General Protest' event held in Seoul, Nov. 14, police brutally fired water cannon to protesters, some of which was directly aimed to the protesters. Mixed in there were PAVA(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonivamide) and Soy oil.

In that process, a 69 year old man was directly hit by water cannon in the head, got brain-damaged and fell down. Police even aimed the water cannon to those who ran to drag him out of the squall, resulting more severe damage. Police even aimed the cannon to the ambulance, which were dispatched to take him to hospital.

Mr. Paik, the victim, went into emergency brain surgery at 22:50(GMT +09:00) and still in surgery, at 25:40(GMT +09:00). Family was called for the worst situation. below are the footage from Media Mongoo, who was at the scene and captured the hit. Watch from 65 sec.



If can't see the footage in the blog post, click the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyNryV9t-5E

Also included are articles with photos of this protest.

http://www.pressian.com/news/article.html?no=131140
http://www.vop.co.kr/A00000958082.html

This is a distress call from Seoul, South Korea. Please respond.

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