El Caribe news group photographer Danny Polanco, who was covering violence at the UASD where professors and staff are on strike for higher wages while students are demanding the resumption of classes, suffered serious eye injuries yesterday, Thursday 4 February 2016. He was taken to the Centro Cardio-Neuro-Oftalmologico y Transplante (Cecanot) for emergency surgery and removal of two foreign objects from his right eye. Polanco says that the police agents sent in to control the student protest had fired the shots that injured him.
UASD professors are demanding a 40% wage increase, despite being by far the best paid of all university professors in the country.
El Caribe director Osvaldo Santana accused the police of brutality. “That is, the aggression was intentional, within the aggressive parameters of the police that is trained to kill,” said Santana. He called on the police to identify the aggressor.
elCaribe condena agresión contra fotógrafo Danny Polanco; exige a la PN identificar agresor
http://www.7dias.com.do/portada/2016/02/04/i204692_pronostico-reservado-sobre-vision-ojo-derecho-fotorreportero-herido-uasd.html
