Bryn Mawr Student cries against police brutality

· Ken Baumbach staff writer mainly with issues that are political in nature. She was arrested on July 22nd, after the Italian police Susanna Thomas spoke out alleged ~at the theater group, to against what happened in Italy which Thomas belonged, had conafter riots broke out following spired with a violent radical group protests surrounding July's G-8 known as the Black Bloc. Many summit meeting in Genoa, Italy. considered the Bloc to be responThomas, 21 years of age, was irn- sible for instigating the riots. She prisoned for three weeks in an was held prisoner in Voghera.outItalian jail, after what she de- side of Milan until her release on scribes as being a "terrible brutal- August 14th. ity" in the riots that left one pro- The riots in Italy where some of tester dead and hundreds injured. the most brutal and violent since Thomas, who is originally from the anti-globalization movement Warren, New Jersey, attends Bryn erupted at the World Trade OrgaMawr College located in Bryn nization in Seattle, Washington in Mawr,Pennsylvania. She is part of 1999. The Italian police have been the Australian Pulbix Theatre car- criticized of engaging in acts of avan, a theater group that deals brutality and using unnecessary --=---------=-----""'-----' force against protesters. The

Susanna Thomas, Bryn Mawr student events hat occurred on July 22nd left many people severely injured and beaten and at least 92 people were arrested. Police shot one man, Carlo Giuliani, to death during the assault. He was the only fatality during the assault,

Thomas, "Thankful I was never beaten or assaulted," and that she prays for all those who where injured. As of the previous week 20 of the Italian police force, including a man named, Arnaldo La Barbara, the then head of Italy's antiterrorist force had been placed under a criminal investigation.

'Toe work of the Pulbix Theatre caravan of, freedom and of the movement and rights of migrant and refugees is never more important than now," Thomas said on • her personal website dedicated to the incident. "As capital crosses borders with ever-increasing ease, people as well must reach across boarders with ever-increasing bonds of friendship and trust.

As Thomas said, "I pray that the Italian authorities remember their democratic heritage and honor that right, and honor the continued political dissent that is so vital to any democracy. This is my prayer for all nations."

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by Ryan Mulloy staff writer

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