HOLGUIN, August 24 (Juan Carlos Garcell, APLO) More than 100 residents of
Moa, in Holguín province, remonstrated against two policemen who beat up
a drunken 23-year-old man.
The victim of the beating, Franklin Cutiño Tito, helped himself to a
cloth from the inside of patrol car 914 to dry his face. This evidently provoked
officers Montes and Laffita, of the National Revolutionary Police, to beat him
up. A mob of about 100 congregated in the area and protested the officers'
actions. Police reacted with even more violence, beating and arresting one of
the demonstrators, a pedicab owner.
When the protesters became enraged with the increased beatings, the officers
retreated before the situation got out of hand, leaving their prisoners behind.
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