Violent Demonstration (Weekly Photo Challenge – Windows)
Here’s a photo I shot for a Norwegian newspaper during a violent demonstration in Oslo, Norway. Notice that one of the police officers are holding his shield upwards to protect him and the other officers against the rock that is flying through the air and is about to hit.
Police protecting themselves against violent demonstrators in Oslo.
As you can see nearly all the windows of the police cars are broken. The demonstration turned out to be very violent and 3 officers were injured. The demonstrators set fire to a caravan while they threw rocks and bottles at the frightened police officers. The police had to use teargas to disperse the demonstrators (which was a crowd of 30-40 people).
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This is an excellent pic. I can get a sense of the turmoil just from looking at the pic. http://aurelientt.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/
November 4, 2011 at 23:10
Thanks Brandon. I’ll guarantee you that it was turmoil! I’ll might post some follow up pictures later.
November 4, 2011 at 23:29
powerful shot Cardinal!
November 4, 2011 at 23:12
Thanks Gilly
November 4, 2011 at 23:29
Great shot for this week themes
November 5, 2011 at 01:46
Thanks Jake
November 5, 2011 at 14:23
Yikes! Margie
November 5, 2011 at 02:40
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really great shot – i hope you post more I’d love to see what else went on
November 5, 2011 at 04:05
Rocks & bottles flying around the place, demonstrators getting a beating from the officers, a caravan was lit up – plenty of action!
November 5, 2011 at 14:22
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http://postadaychallenge2011.com/2011/11/04/weekly-photo-challenge-windows/ wow to be that close up and to see the windows Broken like that. How wonderful.
November 5, 2011 at 05:01
I don’t know if wonderful is the best word to describe what happened there, but it was definitely interesting!
November 5, 2011 at 14:24
In Norway? Amazing but maybe not so now, especially after what happened earlier this year. Thank you for the pingback by the way…
November 5, 2011 at 13:13
There hasn’t been any violent demonstrations lately, but they occur approximately once every 2 years.
I was impresseed by your HDR photos in this weeks photo challenge. Nice job!
November 5, 2011 at 14:19
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Goodness, not how I remember Oslo. Excellent entry
November 5, 2011 at 16:26
Thanks Nuvofelt.
Luckily this situation doesn’t reflect daily-life in Oslo – this little “village on steroids”.
November 5, 2011 at 16:52
very emotional and powerful photo. Good work.
November 5, 2011 at 18:24
Thank you Maggie
November 5, 2011 at 23:02
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I’m loving all these unique window shots. I thought at first this would be a ho hum challenge, but I was wrong. So many great submissions.
November 5, 2011 at 21:27
Thank you Doris. You have some great shots in your blog
November 5, 2011 at 23:13
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Intense.
November 6, 2011 at 15:56
Definitely.
November 6, 2011 at 17:09
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